Books in the Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development series

In this book the authors review and summarize scholarly research that has been devoted to the development of prosocial behaviour in children, and examine the variety of influences that contribute to children's prosocial development, including the media, parents, peers, biology and culture.

This timely volume presents developments in the analysis of disclosure processes. It brings together issues as diverse as loneliness, moral development and child abuse into a substantive whole which will prove a mighty contribution to the field.

Comparisons in Human Development examines ways in which different disciplines have treated comparisons and development and provides empirical examples that take a comparative, developmental approach to human activity and thought.

In this book, first published in 2006, the editors assemble contributions from fifteen longitudinal studies representing diverse groups in the United States, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom to learn what developmental patterns and experiences in middle childhood contexts forecast the directions children take when they reach adolescence and adulthood.

This book is devoted specifically to culture and children's peer relationships. The chapters explore different issues in peer relationships using multiple methodologies and diverse populations. Authors have focused on how social and cultural context may influence the processes of peer interactions and the development of peer relationships.

The study of parents from their own perspective not just as socializing agents of their children has been long neglected. This book summarizes and presents the new and surging literature on parenting representations namely parents' views, emotions and internal world regarding their parenting.

This timely volume presents developments in the analysis of disclosure processes. It brings together issues as diverse as loneliness, moral development and child abuse into a substantive whole which will prove a mighty contribution to the field.

Divorce and marital instability are commonplace, but how do happy marriages become unhappy? How do marriages develop and change? In this 1998 book, leading researchers present research and theory that address these questions and that focus on how marital dysfunction develops among newly wed couples.

This volume presents important research into the little-explored social and emotional development that accompany early friendships. Internationally recognized scholars discuss the details of friendship development, the accompanying cognitive growth, and its emotional and social adjustment. The authors also express their views on future directions for such research.

This volume provides a developmental perspective of the regulation and dysregulation of emotion.

Numerous volumes exist on adult romantic relationships and on adolescent sexuality, but this 2000 book was the first volume to examine adolescent romantic relationships. Papers in this volume cover the full range of aspects of romantic relationships, and examine general processes and individual differences within the general context of adolescent development.

Emotional Development presents the early phases of emotional life from a developmental perspective. It reveals the timing, function and common core processes underlying the emergence of specific emotions. It also discusses our capacity for and individual styles of emotional regulation.

This volume was the first compilation to introduce the dynamic systems approach to self-organization. Pattern and coherence emerge in natural systems through a process called self-organization. The study of self-organization systems has had a major impact on the natural sciences in the last 20 years.

Although conflict in human affairs has fascinated theorists and researchers for centuries, this book was the first to focus on the role of conflict in psychological and social development: the hows, whens, wheres, and whys of conflict in everyday life.

In Social Motivation, first published in 1997, top researchers in educational psychology and social development demonstrate how children's school adjustment depends not only on their academic competence but also on their social skills, school related attitudes, expectations and definitions of self.

Developmental Science provides an account of the basic principles of the new developmental synthesis, as formulated by the Carolina Consortium on Human Development. It addresses specific developmental issues, varying across time frames, methodologies, disciplines, cultures and even species.

Elliot Turiel's work focuses on the development of moral judgement in children and adolescents and, more generally, on their evolving understanding of the conventions of social systems. This study will be of interest to a wide range of researchers and students in child development and education.

In Social Motivation, first published in 1997, top researchers in educational psychology and social development demonstrate how children's school adjustment depends not only on their academic competence but also on their social skills, school related attitudes, expectations and definitions of self.

This collection brings together research on morality in human development. The pervasiveness of the moral domain can be detected in every aspect of social life; moral commitments shape the goals and aspirations of individuals and moral judgments are apparent in discourse about most forms of human interaction.

This presents the view that research, history and policy are essential and interlocking components of a mature developmental psychology. Patterns of human development differ markedly across historical epochs, cultures, and social circumstances. An historical perspective reveals the beneficial, if sometimes contentious, interplay between empirical research and social programs and policies.

This presents the view that research, history and policy are essential and interlocking components of a mature developmental psychology. Patterns of human development differ markedly across historical epochs, cultures, and social circumstances. An historical perspective reveals the beneficial, if sometimes contentious, interplay between empirical research and social programs and policies.

Each generation of American children growing up in the twentieth century has come of age in a different world. How do major historical events - such as war or the depression - influence children's development? Here social historians and developmental psychologists examine the implications of a changing society for children's growth and life chances.

Although conflict in human affairs has fascinated theorists and researchers for centuries, this book was the first to focus on the role of conflict in psychological and social development: the hows, whens, wheres, and whys of conflict in everyday life.

This important book provides a comprehensive look, from a developmental perspective, of how children and adolescents come to understand themselves during the first two decades of life. It explores every aspect of this central area of social cognition, including the physical, social, active, and psychological aspects of self.

This important 1999 volume examines the effects of the mother's employment on family life. The analysis reveals how the mother's employment status affects the father's role, the mother's sense of well-being, and childrearing patterns, providing an intimate picture of urban life and how families cope with mothers' employment.