Table of Contents:
  • Introduction, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly at age 50, an occasion for appraising the past, present, and future of the human developmental sciences ; Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Merrill-Palmer Quarterly / Gary W. Ladd
  • Limitations of concepts in developmental psychology / Jerome Kagan
  • Theory-of-mind development : retrospect and prospect / John H. Flavell
  • Cognitive development includes global and domain-specific processes / Robert V. Kail
  • Learning about learning / Robert S. Siegler
  • Temperament and the pursuit of an integrated developmental psychology / Mary K. Rothbart
  • Emotion-related regulation : an emerging construct / Nancy Eisenberg, Claire Champion, and Yue Ma
  • Role of mental representation in social development / Carol S. Dweck and Bonita E. London
  • Children's friendships : shifts over a half-century in perspectives on their development and their effects / Thomas J. Berndt
  • Paying attention to and not neglecting social withdrawal and social isolation / Kenneth H. Rubin and Robert J. Coplan
  • Next 50 years : considering gender as a context for understanding young children's peer relationships / Richard A. Fabes, Carol Lynn Martin, and Laura D. Hanish
  • Understanding children's family worlds : family transitions and children's outcomes / Judy Dunn
  • Fathers, families, and the future : a plethora of plausible predictions / Ross D. Parke
  • Progress and prospects in the psychology of moral development / Lawrence J. Walker
  • Conscience in childhood : past, present, and future / Grazyna Kochanska and Nazan Aksan
  • Genetics and developmental psychology / Robert Plomin
  • Nature-nurture debate and public policy / Kenneth A. Dodge
  • Why we need to explore development in its cultural context / Robert J. Sternberg and Elena L. Grigorenko
  • Historical lessons : the value of pluralism in psychological research / Elliot Turiel
  • Early child care : the known and the unknown / Deborah Lowe Vandell
  • Early learning and school readiness : can early intervention make a difference? / Craig T. Ramey and Sharon L. Ramey
  • Contextual factors in risk and prevention research / John E. Lochman
  • Integrating developmental scholarship and society : from dissemination and accountability to evidence-based programming and policies / Robert B. McCall, Christina J. Groark, and Robert P. Nelkin.