The first part of this paper reviews the basic tenets of attachment theory with respect to
differences in cultural socialization strategies. In one strategy infants have the lead, and the …

After seeing an action sequence children and adults tend to copy causally relevant and,
more strikingly, even perceivably unnecessary actions in relation to the given goal. This …

There exists an undeniable chasm between the capacities of humans and those of animals.
Our minds have spawned civilizations and technologies that have changed the face of the …

Moral Development and Reality explores the nature of moral development, human behavior,
and social interconnections. The exploration elucidates the full range of moral development …

This new edition of the bestselling text, Nurturing Natures, provides an indispensable
synthesis of the latest scientific knowledge about children's emotional development …

This chapter proposes a unified framework based on evolutionary theorizing and cross-
cultural and cultural anthropological approaches that may serve as a guideline for the …

In this volume, Qi Wang traces the developmental, social, cultural, and historical origins of
the autobiographical self-the self that is made of memories of the personal past and of the …

We review research on reactions to mirrors and self-recognition in nonhuman primates,
focusing on methodological issues. Starting with the initial demonstration in chimpanzees in …

The development of self‐regulation has been studied primarily in Western middle‐class
contexts and has, therefore, neglected what is known about culturally varying self‐concepts …

Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as
interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about …