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Preface: A Note to Instructors Chapter 1. Development and Culture: Theoretical Perspectives Chapter 2. Methods for Studying Development and Culture Chapter 3. Culture and Cognitive Development Chapter 4. Sociolinguistics Chapter 5. Culture and Emotional Development Chapter 6. Culture, Child Development, and Family Relationships Chapter 7. Culture and Peer Relationships Chapter 8. Culture and Conflict Management During Childhood and Adolescence Chapter 9. Development in Cultural Communities and Physical Spaces Chapter 10. Culture and Time Use: Play, Work, School, and Leisure Chapter 11. Culture and Academic Achievement Chapter 12. Culture and Internalizing Symptomology: Shyness, Social Withdrawal, and Depression Chapter 13. Culture and the Development of Aggression, Delinquency, and Substance Use Chapter 14. Prosocial Behavior, Morality, and Positive Youth Development in Cultural Context Chapter 15. Culture and the Transition to Adulthood References Appendix: Resources for Further Research
Jennifer E. Lansford is a Research Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. She earned her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Lansford leads the Parenting Across Cultures Project, a longitudinal study of mothers, fathers, and children from China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States. She has consulted for UNICEF on the evaluation of parenting programs in several low- and middle-income countries and on the development of a set of international standards for parenting programs. Doran C. French is a Professor at the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University. He earned his PhD in child psychology from the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on child and adolescent social competence with an emphasis on peer relationships (social status, popularity, friendship, social networks), conflict, developmental psychology (substance use, aggression, and loneliness), and Islam and child development. His work for the past 20 years has addressed the cultural context of social competence with continuing research in Indonesia and China. Mary Gauvain is a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from the University of Utah. Dr. Gauvain is a developmental psychologist and her research investigates social and cultural contributions to cognitive development. She has studied childrens learning inside and outside of school, childrens knowledge of water and food contamination in the United States and Africa, and child development during cultural change. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Educational Research Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.