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Handbook of Child Psychology: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development: v. 3 6th Edition
Author(s): William Damon (Editor), Richard M. Lerner (Editor), Nancy Eisenberg (Editor)
- Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
- Publication Date: 9 Jun. 2006
- Edition: 6th
- Language: English
- Print length: 1152 pages
- ISBN-10: 0471272906
- ISBN-13: 9780471272908
Book Description
Volume 3: Social, Emotional, and Personality Development, edited by Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University, covers mechanisms of socialization and personality development, including parent/child relationships, peer relationships, emotional development, gender role acquisition, pro–social and anti–social development, motivation, achievement, social cognition, and moral reasoning, plus a new chapter on adolescent development.
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About the Author
Editors–in–Chief
Dr. Damon is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute, the director of the Stanford Center on Adolescence, and a professor of education at Stanford University. He has written several books, many book chapters, and numerous articles on child development and adolescence and is editor–in–chief of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (Jossey–Bass).
Dr. Lerner is Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science at the Eliot–Pearson Department at Tufts University. He is the author of many publications, including the Handbook of Psychology, Volume 6, Developmental Psychology, and Pathways to Positive Development about Diverse Youth, New Directions for Youth Development: Theory, Practice, and Research (Jossey–Bass). Dr Lerner is also a past editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence.
