Promotional Information

Each chapter provides in-depth discussions and this volume serves as an invaluable resource for Developmental or educational psychology researchers, scholars, and students

Table of Contents

Embodiment and Epigenesis: A View of the Issues


Dynamic Models of biological pattern formation have some surprising implications for understanding the epigenetics of development

A Developmental Systems Approach to Executive Function

No Genes for Intelligence in the Fluid Genome

The Lost Study: A 1998 Adoption Study of Personality That Found No Genetic Relationship Between Birthparents and Their 240 Adopted-Away Biological Offspring

A relational developmental systems approach to moral development

Adolescent Rationality

Developing through Relations: An Embodied Coactive Systems Framework

Multiple trajectories in the developmental psychobiology of human handedness

Positive Movement Experiences: Approaching the study of athletic participation, exercise, and leisure activity through relational developmental systems theory and the concept of embodiment

Integration of Culture and Biology in Human Development

About the Author

Janette B. Benson is an Associate Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Denver. She recently served for five years as the Director of the University-wide Office of Academic Assessment and co-chaired the successful University reaccreditation. 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.