Hood / Halpern / Greenberg Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, and Genetics

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5168-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 776 Seiten, E-Book

The Handbook of Developmental Science, Behavior, andGenetics brings together the cutting-edge theory, research andmethodology that contribute to our current scientific understandingof the role of genetics in the developmental system.
* Commemorates the historically importantcontributions made by Gilbert Gottlieb in comparative psychologyand developmental science
* Includes an international group of contributors whoare among the most respected behavioral and biological scientistsworking today
* Examines the scientific basis for rejecting thereductionism and counterfactual approach to understanding the linksbetween genes, behavior, and development
* Documents the current status of comparative psychologyand developmental science and provides the foundation for futurescientific progress in the field

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hood, Kathryn E.

Halpern, Carolyn Tucker

Greenberg, Gary

Lerner, Richard M.

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn E. Hood is an associate professor of humandevelopment at Pennsylvania State University. Her 30 years ofactive research includes the study of selective breeding in mice.She also analyzes interviews from children in the archival CarolinaLongitudinal Study.
Carolyn Tucker Halpern is an associate professor in theDepartment of Maternal and Child Health at the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on biopsychosocialmodels of adolescent health and development, and the implicationsof adolescent experiences for young adult well-being.
Gary Greenberg is Professor Emeritus of Psychology atWichita State University and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at theUniversity of Illinois - Chicago. He is a comparative psychologist,co-founder of the International Society for Comparative Psychology,and Historian/Archivist of APA's Division (6) of BehavioralNeuroscience and Comparative Psychology.
Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in AppliedDevelopmental Science within the Eliot-Pearson Department of ChildDevelopment and the Director of the Institute for Applied YouthDevelopment, at Tufts University. Lerner is known for his theory ofrelations between life-span human development and social change,and for his research about the relations between adolescents andtheir peers, families, schools, and communities.