Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Janette B. Benson is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Denver. She served for five years as the Director of the University-wide Office of Academic Assessment and co-chaired the successful University reaccreditation. Most recently she served as the Associate Dean of the Morgridge College of Education (2014-2017). Dr. Benson’s expertise is in cognitive and sensorimotor development in infancy and early childhood, and her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, The MacArthur Foundation and the March of Dimes. Dr. Benson has published several articles, book chapters and has edited or co-edited several books, including The Encyclopedia of Infancy and Early Childhood Development. She has been the recipient of several awards and honors, including the University of Denver Scholar – Teacher of the Year (1993), the 2000 CASE Colorado Professor of the Year, a Carnegie Scholar, a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, member of the Board of Directors of Shortridge Academy, and the serial editor of Advances in Child Development and Behavior.

"This book contains useful information about different topics in child development and will be of great benefit to clinicians and researchers in the field. As seen in volume 58, yearly updates are needed because ongoing research provides so much new information." --Doody

• PrefaceJanette B. Benson1. The development of mental rotation ability across the first year after birthDavid S. Moore and Scott P. Johnson2. Beyond perceptual development: Infant responding to social categoriesPaul C. Quinn, Kang Lee and Olivier Pascalis3. Groups as moral boundaries: A developmental perspectiveLisa Chalik and Marjorie Rhodes4. Content counts: A trait and moral reasoning framework for children’s selective social learningKimberly E. Marble and Janet J. Boseovski5. Trust in early childhoodLori Markson and Yuyan Luo6. Mother-child behavioral and physiological synchronyMartha Ann Bell7. What is the evidence in evidence-based mindfulness programs for children?Kaitlyn M. Butterfield, Kim P. Roberts, Lindsey E. Feltis and Nancy Kocovski8. Children’s future-oriented cognitionTeresa McCormack and Christoph Hoerl