Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Advances in Child Development and Behavior is intended to ease the task faced by researchers, instructors, and students who are confronted by the vast amount of research and theoretical discussion in child development and behavior. The serial provides scholarly technical articles with critical reviews, recent advances in research, and fresh theoretical viewpoints. Volume 32 discusses cultural contributions in development, infants' representation of objects and events, the impacts of affluence, mechanisms of early categorization and induction, attentional inertia, the early development of pictoral competence, and classroom competence.

M. Gauvain, Bringing Culture into Relief: Cultural Contributions to the Development of Children’s Planning Skills.
R.E. Keen and N.E. Berthier, Continuities and Discontinuities in Infants’ Representation of Objects and Events.
P.A. Klaczynski, A Dual-Process Model of Adolescent Development: Implications for Decision
Making, Reasoning, and Identity.
S.S. Luthar and C.C. Sexton, The High Price of Affluence.
D.H. Rakison and E.R. Hahn, The mechanisms of early categorization and induction: Smart or Dumb Infants?
J.E. Richards and D.R. Anderson, Attentional Inertia in Children’s Extended Looking at Television.
G.L. Troseth, S.L. Pierroutsakos and J.S. DeLoache, From the innocent to the intelligent eye: the early development of pictoral competence.
K.R. Wentzel, Understanding Classroom Competence: The Role of Social-Motivational and Self-Processes.