When does adolescence end? This book is an attempt to add to the theoretical discussion regarding the nature of the intrapsychic and interpersonal transformational changes associated with the transition from adolescence to young adulthood.
"Adult aging influences the decoding of social and emotional cues. Older adults perform worse than younger adults in labeling some types of emotional expression from faces, bodies, and voices. Age-related declines also occur in following social cues from eye gaze. Other aspects …
In recent years, the number of empirical studies examining attachment in adolescence has grown considerably, with most focusing on individual difference in attachment security. This volume goes a step further in extending knowledge and understanding. The physical, cognitive, emo…
"In recent years, the number of empirical studies examining attachment in adolescence has grown considerably, with most focusing on individual difference in attachment security. This volume goes a step further in extending knowledge and understanding. The physical, cognitive, em…
Biographical note: Nathan A. Fox, University of Maryland, USA; Charles H. Zeanah, Tulane University, USA. Main description: Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared wit…
Main Description:The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 over…
"Identity, Community, and Learning Lives in the Digital Age Recent work on education, identity, and community has expanded the intellectual boundaries of learning research. From home-based studies examining youth experiences with technology, to forms of ntrepreneurial learning i…
"This volume creates a landscape of new ideas on what we might consider both commonplace and yet mysterious--our relations with animals and their influences on children and developmental processes. The chapters collectively form a multilevel, ecological model from which to consi…
Developmental theorists have long speculated that emotion and cognition are inseparable components of the developmental process. Some even have suggested that the two components are fully integrated by the time children reach school age. Yet, despite considerable theoretical wor…
"When a young child begins to engage in everyday interaction, she has to acquire competencies that allow her to be oriented to the conventions that inform talk-in-interaction and, at the same time, deal with emotional or affective dimensions of experience. The theoretical positi…
"Prophecy Coles: The Shadow of the "Second Mother": Nurses and nannies in theories of infant development. The Shadow of the "Second Mother" explores why has there been such little interest, in psychology, social history and biography, in the important contribution that 'second m…