I. Introduction
1. Developmental Systems Theory and Methodology: A View of the
Issues, Peter C. M. Molenaar, Richard M. Lerner, and Karl M.
Newell
II. Relational Developmental Systems Theory
2. Relational Developmental Systems and Developmental Science: A
Focus on Methodology, Willis F. Overton
3. Relational Developmental Systems Theories of Positive Youth
Development: Methodological Issues and Implications, G. John
Geldhof, Edmond P. Bowers, Sara K. Johnson, Rachel Hershberg, Lacey
Hilliard, Jacqueline V. Lerner, and Richard M. Lerner
4. Developmental Systems Science: Extending Developmental Science
with Systems Science Methodologies, Jennifer Brown Urban, Nathaniel
Osgood, Janet Okamoto, Patricia Mabry, and Kristen Hassmiller
Lich
III. Epigenetic Development and Evolution
5. Epigenetics and Generative Dynamics: How Development Directs
Evolution, Mae-Wan Ho
6. Dynamical Systems, the Epigenetic Landscape, and Punctuated
Equilibria, Peter T. Saunders
IV. Neural Networks and Development
7. Nonlinear Epigenetic Variance in Developmental Processes,
Maartje E. J. Raijmakers, Kees Jan Kan, Annemie Ploeger, and Han L.
J. van der Maas
8. Dynamical Systems Thinking: From Metaphor to Neural Theory,
Gregor Schöner
V. Dynamics of Development
9. Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill
Formation: The Linear Case, Flavio Cunha and James J. Heckman
10. Dynamics of Development: A Complex Systems Approach, Han L. J.
van der Maas, Kees Jan Kan, Abe Hofman, and Maartje E. J.
Raijmakers
11. Dynamic Development of Brain and Behavior, Kurt W. Fischer and
Paul van Geert
12. Dynamics of Motor Learning and Development across the Life
Span, Karl M. Newell and Yeou-Teh Liu
VI. Dynamics of Social Interaction
13. Differential Equations for Evaluating Theoretical Models of
Dyadic Interactions, Emilio Ferrer and Joel Steele
14. A Differential Equations Model for the Ovarian Hormone Cycle,
Steven M. Boker, Michael C. Neale, and Kelly L. Klump
VII. Nonlinear Dynamical Models of Development
15. A Regimen-Switching Longitudinal Model of Alcohol
Lapse-Relapse, Sy-Miin Chow, Katie Witkiewitz, Raoul Grasman, R.
Shane Hutton, and Stephen A. Maisto
VIII. Nonergodic Developmental Systems
16. Idiographic Applications: Issues of Ergodicity and
Generalizability, Wayne F. Velicer, Steven F. Babbin, and Richard
Palumbo
17. New Trends in the Inductive Use of Relational Developmental
Systems Theory: Ergodicity, Nonstationarity, and Heterogeneity,
Peter C. M. Molenaar and John R. Nesselroade
IX. Complex Systems Model in Human Development: Reevaluation and
Future Directions
18. The Landscape of Inductive Developmental Systems, Phillip K.
Wood
Peter C. M. Molenaar, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Human
Development and Psychology at The Pennsylvania State University.
His research focuses on the development, testing, and application
of person-centered analysis techniques; psychophysiological
research; and psychological process modeling. The recipient of the
2013 Sells Award for Distinguished Multivariate Research from the
Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Dr. Molenaar has
also received the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research
Career Award from Penn State and the Aston-Gottesman Award from the
University of Virginia.
Richard M. Lerner, PhD, is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied
Developmental Science and Director of the Institute for Applied
Research in Youth Development at Tufts University. Dr. Lerner's
research focuses on the relations between life-span human
development and social change, and the relations between
adolescents and their peers, families, schools, and communities. He
is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, the American Psychological Association (APA), and the
Association for Psychological Science, and is a recipient of the
Urie Bronfenbrenner Award for Lifetime Contribution to
Developmental Psychology in the Service of Science and Society from
Division 7 of the APA.
Karl M. Newell, PhD, is the Marie Underhill Noll Chair of Human
Performance and Professor of Kinesiology and Biobehavioral Health
at Penn State. His research focuses on the coordination, control,
and skill of normal and abnormal human movement across the life
span; developmental disabilities and motor skills; and the
influence of drugs and exercise on movement control. Dr. Newell was
named an Alliance Scholar by the American Alliance for Health,
Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance, and is a recipient of
the Distinguished Scholar Award from the North American Society for
the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity.
This handbook covers topics at the leading edge of the
developmental sciences. If the study of development over the last
century has taught us anything, it's that development is enormously
complicated--and disentangling it requires methodological and
analytic approaches that mirror its complexity. This volume will
serve researchers and students of development for years to
come.--John Colombo, PhD, Department of Psychology and Director,
Life Span Institute, University of Kansas
This volume makes good on a promise of developmental systems theory
that has long gone unfulfilled: real confluence of the many
scientific streams that flow into the developmental analysis of
behavior. All of the great dichotomies that once characterized
nature and nurture--biological and quantitative genetics,
individual differences and species-typical characteristics,
experimental and nonexperimental approaches, the lab bench and
purely virtual simulations of quantitative models--are allowed here
to flourish side by side without intellectual rancor. The result is
an enriching synthesis that provides a model for the next
generation of developmental scientists.--Eric Turkheimer, PhD,
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
Development is complex and extends over the entire life course, but
early developmental scholarship tended to focus on narrow
constructs and restricted portions of the life span. In contrast,
this volume offers integrative, relational approaches to human
development, assembling cutting-edge work on dynamic systems
theory. The contributors identify and solve methodological
challenges posed by systems theory, illuminate how new
methodologies are grounded in metatheoretical concepts, and
illustrate how new methods may be applied to understand and
optimize human development. This is an excellent resource for
faculty, staff researchers, and doctoral students who wish to study
development in all its complexity.--Lynn S. Liben, PhD,
Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State
University.
Developmental systems theory provides an integrative theoretical
foundation for the future of developmental science in a postgenomic
world. This handbook provides key lessons about relevant
cutting-edge methods along with a multitude of examples of how
these methods can be applied. It is an invaluable resource for
established developmental systems researchers as well as those
seeking to apply this approach to their own work.--Peter J.
Marshall, PhD, Department of Psychology, Temple University
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