Intelligence is a core construct in differential psychology and behavioural genetics, and
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of physical child abuse and neglect by organizing the paper around a variety of “contexts of …

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A discipline is emerging called cultural psychology; it will serve as a force of renewal for both
anthropology and psychology. In this book Richard Shweder presents its manifesto. Its …

Concepts and Theories of Human Development is the most comprehensive and in-depth
overview of the foundational theoretical contributions to understanding human development …

Behavioral Genetics, Fifth Edition provides an engaging and clear overview of human and
animal behavioral genetics that is designed to introduce students in the behavioral …

Two leading developmentalists, Donald H. Ford and Richard M. Lerner, present the first
integrative theory on human development. Through a synthesis of developmental …

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essay is an edited and elaborated transcript of a tape recording of remarks made at the …

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thinking of infants and toddlers from that of preschoolers, older children, and adolescents? In …

The initial behavioral reaction to unfamiliar events is a distinctive source of intraspecific
variation in humans and other animals. Two longitudinal studies of 2-year-old children who …