Pillars of Developmental Psychology

Dr. Frank Kessel, an Emeritus Professor at the University of New Mexico, has edited volumes such as 'The Development of Language and Language Researchers' and 'The Child and Other Cultural Inventions', and is an elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development.

'The breadth and depth of the scholarship represented in this volume is inspiring and humbling at the same time. Inspiring for the models of exceptional critical thinking and humbling for how clear each author is about the limits of our presently “known world” of the human mind. Every new (and senior) student of psychology should read this book as a necessary roadmap for the field's future.' Linda Mayes, Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale University, USA

• 1. Towards a psychology of knowing David R. Olson; 2. Imitation and the generative mind Jacqueline Nadel; 3. Paranoid psychology: searching for the theory that explains everything Arnold Sameroff; 4. Back and forth with life: development of a developmentalist Patricia M. Greenfield; 5. Children of today are the adults of tomorrow Lea Pulkkinen; 6. Studying children in sociocultural context: a widening journey Robert Serpell; 7. A once and future developmental psychologist Howard Gardner; 8. Sperlonga and beyond Paul L. Harris; 9. Roots of Richard Lerner Richard M. Lerner; 10. One career, two career narratives Catherine E. Snow; 11. Turning points in the study of developmental processes Stephen J. Suomi; 12. Explorations in progress, positivity, and purpose William Damon; 13. An atypical developmental pathway: seizing opportunities and creating new ones Anne Petersen; 14. A developmental science investigation into a developmental science life, or why I paint Marc Bornstein; 15. Developmental origins of physical aggression and its prevention: a bio-psycho-social journey Richard Tremblay; 16. The social, cultural and racial context of development Oscar Barbarin; 17. Braiding together interdisciplinary threads across the life span: a research tapestry Jeanne Brooks-Gunn; 18. My journey to become a cultural developmental psychologist Heidi Keller; 19. Developmental science, institutional structures, and a scholarly career in the discipline: reflections through a racial lens Vonnie C. McLoyd; 20. From changing contexts to individual change: a lifelong journey Rainer Silbereisen; 21. Developmental psychology's 21st century identity task: creating science beyond the mask of the myth Margaret Beale Spencer; 22. Standing on the shoulders of giants while desperately learning to swim Michael E. Lamb; 23. What developmental psychology did for me, not what I did for developmental psychology Terezinha Nunes; 24. The making of a developmental psychopathologist Dante Cicchetti; 25. Transforming by participating Barbara Rogoff; 26. The importance of serendipity in shaping a career Laurence Steinberg; 27. I didn't know where I was going until I was halfway there! Megan R. Gunnar; 28. Aspiring to cognitive science: in search of the cog in Social Cognition Josef Perner; 29. Touchstones and sightings Peggy J. Miller; 30. Individual and cultural historical development Willem Koops; 31. Big and small fishes and their ponds Linda Richter; 32. From philosophical anthropology to developmental psychology: working Pasteur's quadrant J. Lawrence Aber; 33. Change and continuity in the life of a developmental psychologist Cynthia Garcia Coll; 34. Serendipity on the path to developmental resilience science Ann S. Masten; 35. Career come full circle: my journey in disciplinary paradigmatic, and geo-cultural boundary-crossing Kofi Marfo; 36. True to child development throughout a changing society Tiia Tulviste; 37. Reflections of a developmental psychologist from India Suman Verma; 38. Global south developmental psychology: using native lenses Silvia H. Koller; 39. 'I wish I could be like a tree' Nandita Chaudhary; 40. The different ways micro and macro coincide in a developmental career Hirokazu Yoshikawa; 41. Threads and themes of development: some semi-random suggestions Frank Kessel.