The development and maintenance of prosocial, other-oriented behaviors has been of
considerable recent interest. Though it is clear that prosocial behaviors emerge early and …

The 2 main tasks of this article are 1st, to examine what a theory of emotion must do and
basic issues that it must address. These include definitional issues, whether or not …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …

This book provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and holistic analysis of the socio-
psychological dynamics of intractable conflicts. Daniel Bar-Tal's original conceptual …

An important work from a leading scholar, this book explores self-development from early
childhood to adulthood. Susan Harter traces the normative stages that define the emergence …

This mixed-methods study examined gender differences in the friendships and conflict
experiences of autistic girls and boys relative to their neurotypical peers. In total, 102 …

Social Identity explains how identification, seen as a social process, works: individually,
interactionally and institutionally. Building on the international success of previous editions …

What is happiness? Why are some people happier than others? This new edition of The
Psychology of Happiness provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of research …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

1. Surely since the Enlightenment, if not before, the study of mind has centered principally
upon how man achieves a “true” knowledge of the world. Emphasis in this pursuit has …