Current readings in child development

Children of the garden island / Emmy E. Werner

Genetics and experience / Robert Plomin and Jenae M. Neiderhiser

Imitation in newborn infants : exploring the range of gestures imitated and the underlying mechanisms / Andrew N. Meltzoff and M. Keith Moore

Early experience and emotional development : the emergence of wariness of heights / Joseph J. Campos, Bennett I. Bertenthal and Rosanne Kermoian

Nutrition and behavior / Betsy Lozoff

Object permanence in 3 1/2- and 4 1/2-month old infants / Renee Baillargeon

Addition and subtraction by human infants / Karen Wynn

Rapid change in the symbolic functioning of very young children / Judy S. DeLoache

The psychological and social origins of autobiographical memory / Katherine Nelson

Inferring false beliefs from actions and reactions

Louis J. Moses and John H. Flavell

Becoming a native listener / Janet F. Werker

Babbling in the manual mode : evidence for the ontogeny of language / Laura Anne Petitto and Paula F. Marentette

Biological bases of childhood shyness / Jerome Kagan, J. Steven Reznick and Nancy Snidman

Children's use of anatomically detailed dolls to recount an event / Gail S. Goodman and Christine Aman

Motivational processes affecting learning / Carol S. Dweck

Friendship and friendship quality in middle childhood : links with peer group acceptance and feelings of loneliness and social dissatisfaction / Jeffrey G. Parker and Steven R. Asher

Children's reasoning and interpersonal and moral conflicts / Judith G. Smetana, Melanie Killen, and Elliot Turiel

Gender and relationships : a developmental account / Eleanor E. Maccoby

Genital knowledge and gender constancy in preschool children / Sandra Lipsitz Bem

Family-peer connections : the roles of emotional expressiveness within the family and children's understanding of emotions / Jude Cassidy, Ross D. Parke , Laura Butkovsky, and Julia M. Braungart

A developmental perspective on antisocial behavior / G. R. Patterson, Barbara D. DeBaryshe and Elizabeth Ramsey

Mathematics achievement of Chinese, Japanese and American children / Harold W. Stevewnson, Shin-Ying Lee and James W. Stigler

Development during adolescence: the impact of stage-environment fit on young adolescents' experiences in schools and families / Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Carol Midgley, Allan Wigfield, Christy Miller Buchanan, David Reuman, Constance Flanagan and Douglas Mac Iver

Socialization and development in a changing economy : the effects of paternal job and income loss on children / Vonnie C. McLoyd

Facts, fantasies and the future of child care in the United States / Sandra Scarr, Deborah Phillps and Kathleen McCartney.