I. Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Developmental
Psychology: Core Issues and Approaches
1. Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development: An Emerging
Synthesis,
David F. Bjorklund and Bruce J. Ellis
2. Ontogeny and Evolution of the Social Child, Mark V. Flinn and
Carol V. Ward
3. The Role of Developmental Plasticity in the Evolution of Human
Cognition: Evidence from Enculturated, Juvenile Great Apes, David
F. Bjorklund and Justin S. Rosenberg
4. Early Stress: Perspectives from Developmental Evolutionary
Ecology, James S. Chisholm,
Victoria K. Burbank, David A. Coall, and Frank Gemmiti
5. Developmental Behavioral Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology:
Tying the Theoretical and Empirical Threads, Nancy L. Segal and
Elizabeth M. Hill
II. Personality and Social Development
6. Differential Susceptibility to Rearing Influence: An
Evolutionary Hypothesis and Some Evidence, Jay Belsky
7. Determinants of Pubertal Timing: An Evolutionary Developmental
Approach,
Bruce J. Ellis
8. Some Functional Aspects of Human Adolescence, Glenn E. Weisfeld
and Heather C. Janisse
9. Sex Differences in Competitive and Aggressive Behavior: A View
from Sexual Selection Theory, Anthony D. Pellegrini and John
Archer
10. Social Behavior and Personality Development: The Role of
Experiences with Siblings and with Peers, Judith Rich Harris
11. Play: Types and Functions in Human Development, Peter K.
Smith
12. Evolutionary Origins and Ontogenetic Development of Incest
Avoidance, Irwin Silverman and Irene Bevc
III. Cognitive Development
13. Infant Perception and Cognition: An Evolutionary Perspective on
Early Learning,
David H. Rakison
14. Evolution and Development of Human Memory Systems, Katherine
Nelson
15. Language Evolution and Human Development, Brian MacWhinney
16. The Evolutionary History of an Illusion: Religious Causal
Beliefs in Children and Adults, Jesse M. Bering
17. Cognitive Development and the Understanding of Animal Behavior,
H. Clark Barrett
18. The Empathizing System: A Revision of the 1994 Model of the
Mindreading System,
Simon Baron-Cohen
19. Folk Knowledge and Academic Learning, David C. Geary
Bruce J. Ellis, PhD, spent the early years of his career at the
University of Canterbury in New Zealand before taking up his
current position as an Associate Professor of Family Studies and
Human Development at the University of Arizona. He completed his
doctoral work in evolutionary psychology at the University of
Michigan and his postdoctoral work in the National Institute of
Mental Health's Developmental Psychopathology Training Program at
Vanderbilt University. The major focus of his research is on
testing conditional adaptation models of the effects of early
family environments on the timing of pubertal development and first
sexual and reproductive activity. Dr. Ellis received the 1999 John
F. Kennedy Center Young Scientist Award and has served on the
editorial boards of Developmental Psychology, Evolutionary
Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Review, and Personal
Relationships.
David F. Bjorklund, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Florida
Atlantic University, where he has taught graduate and undergraduate
courses in developmental psychology since 1976. His research has
focused primarily on children's cognitive development, particularly
memory and strategy development. More recent interests include the
adaptive nature of immaturity, deferred imitation in juvenile great
apes, and evolutionary developmental psychology. Dr. Bjorklund is
the author of several books, including The Origins of Human Nature:
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony D. Pellegrini).
He is a former Associate Editor of Child Development and has served
on the editorial boards of the Journal of Experimental Child
Psychology, Journal of Cognition and Development, Developmental
Review, Educational Psychology Review, Journal of Comparative
Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Development, and
School Psychology Quarterly.
This is a timely and impressive volume from many of today’s leading
scholars in the field of evolutionary developmental psychology, a
perspective that is much misunderstood by mainstream developmental
psychologists. The volume includes a nice mix of broad theoretical
overviews of the discipline and detailed analyses of a wide range
of social and cognitive phenomena. As such, it serves both to
introduce the perspective to scholars and students who are
unfamiliar with it and to illustrate the ways in which evolutionary
thinking can inform the study of numerous aspects of development.
It would make a marvelous textbook for instructors in search of
something to stimulate and challenge the thinking of advanced
undergraduate or graduate students interested in child development.
Indeed, the next time I teach an advanced course in developmental
psychology, I likely will build my syllabus around this
book.--Laurence Steinberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, Temple
University
A cornucopia of new ideas on human development, Origins of the
Social Mind is required reading for developmental
psychologists.--Steven Pinker, PhD, Department of Psychology,
Harvard University
This volume represents the cutting edge of transdisciplinary
scholarship. Relying on the theories and methods of evolutionary
psychology, it broadens the reach of this emerging discipline to
the field of child development. Particularly provocative are
integrative, novel theories by Ellis and Belsky on topics of
relevance to scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and parents.
There is something here for everyone.--Kenneth A. Dodge, PhD,
Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University
- An admirable illustration of the fertility of an evolutionary
perspective to study human development. Many of the chapters are
excellent and replete of new, stimulating ideas. It also brings
together numerous viewpoints on a large number of topics of
interest to developmentalists. I highly recommend this book to
developmental psychologists and, more generally, to psychologists
interested in an evolutionary approach to the mind. --Infant and
Child Development, 11/24/2004ƒƒ The contributors to this text have
excellent credentials, and Ellis and Bjorklund have done a thorough
job editing the text. I was impressed with how incredibly well
referenced the chapters are in the book....This is a novel text
with many excellent contributing writers....The book is a landmark
in the field because it applies evolutionary theory to child
development and adds to the nature-nurture debate. --PsycCRITIQUES,
11/24/2004
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