Childhood Social Development

Peter Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, U.K. His publications include Bullying in Schools: How Successful can Interventions be? (Cambridge UP, 2004), the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development, 2nd ed. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011) and Bullying in the Global Village: Research on Cyberbullying from an International Perspective (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). He was Chair of COST Action IS0801 on Cyberbullying (2008-2012), and is PI of Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Pupil Safety and Wellbeing, financed by the Indian-European Research Networking in the Social Sciences initiative (2012-2015).

• VOLUME ONE: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE FAMILYPart One: Attachment beyond InfancyCategories of Response to Reunion with the Parent at Age 6: Predictable from Infant Attachment Classifications and Stable over a 1-Month Period - Mary Main and Jude CassidyParent-Child Attachment and Monitoring in Middle Childhood - K. Kerns et al.Part Two: Parenting StylesChild Care Practices Anteceding Three Patterns of Preschool Behavior - Diana BaumrindA Reinterpretation of the Direction of Effects in Studies of Socialization - Richard BellThe Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model - Jay BelskyPart Three: Disciplinary Practices and Child AbusePatterns of Marital Conflict Predict Children’s Internalising and Externalising Behaviors - Lynn Fainsilber Katz and John GottmanEvaluating the Success of Sweden’s Corporal Punishment Ban - Joan DurrantChild Outcomes of Nonabusive and Customary Physical Punishment by Parents: An Updated Literature Review - Robert LarzalereMaternal Warmth Moderates the Link between Physical Punishment and Child Externalizing Problems: A Parent-Offspring Behavior Genetic Analysis - Kirby Deater-Deckard, Linda Ivy and Stephen PetrillPart Four: Different Family Types, Step-Parents, Divorce, GrandparentsCoping with Family Transitions: Winners, Losers, and Survivors - E. Mavis HetheringtonThe Impact of Grandparents on Children’s Outcomes in China - Toni FalboAnnotation: On the Grandmothers′ Role in the Adjustment and Maladjustment of Grandchildren - Catherine Lavers and Edmund Sonuga-BarkePart Five: Sibling Relationships, Only ChildrenSibling Relationships in Childhood: Links with Friendship and Peer Relationships - Clare Stocker and Judy DunnOnly Children and Sibling Children in Urban China: A Re-examination - Xinyin Chen, Kenneth Rubin and Bo-shu LiVOLUME TWO: PEER RELATIONS – FRIENDSHIP, IDENTITY, SOCIAL GROUPS AND PLAYPart One: FriendshipSocial Participation among Preschool Children - M. PartenMeasuring Friendship Quality during Pre- and Early Adolescence: The Development and Psychometric Properties of the Friendship Qualities Scale - William Bukowski, Betsy Hoza and Michel BoivinPart Two: Sociometric TraditionDimensions and Types of Social Status: A Cross-Age Perspective - John Coie, Kenneth Dodge and Heide CoppotelliSocial Information Processing Mechanisms in Reactive and Proactive Aggression - Nicki Crick and Kenneth DodgeSociometric Popularity and Peer-Perceived Popularity: Two Distinct Dimensions of Peer Status - Jennifer Parkhurst and Andrea HopmeyerPreadolescent Friendship and Peer Rejection as Predictors of Adult Adjustment - Catherine Bagwell, Andrew Newcomb and William BukowskiPart Three: Group IdentitySocial and Cognitive Bases of Ethnic Identity - Frances AboudChildren′s Use of Gender-related Information in Making Social Judgments - Carol Lynn Martin"God Made Me a Girl": Gender Constancy Judgments and Explanations Revisited - Joel Szkrybalo and Diane RublePart Four: Gender DifferencesAge and Gender Differences in Children′s Self- and Task Perceptions during Elementary School - Jacquelynne Eccles, Allan Wigfield, Rena Harold and Phyllis BlumenfeldA Cross-Cultural Analysis of Sex Differences in the Behavior of Children Aged Three Through 11 - Beatrice Whiting and Carolyn Pope EdwardsChanges in Children′s Self-Competence and Values: Gender and Domain Differences across Grades One through Twelve - Janis Jacobs et al.Part Five: Social PlayElementary School Children’s Rough-and-Tumble Play and Social Competence - A.D. PellegriniWar Toys and Childhood Aggression - B. Sutton-SmithConstructing Understandings through Play in the Early Years - Sue DockettVOLUME THREE: PEER RELATIONS – DOMINANCE, AGGRESSION, PREJUDICE AND SOCIAL EXCLUSION AND BULLYINGPart One: Dominance/StatusDominance Hierarchies in Young Children - Murray Edelman and Donald OmarkDominance, Attention, and Affiliation in a Preschool Group: A Nine-Month Longitudinal Study - Peter LaFreniere and William CharlesworthPart Two: AggressionAggressive Behavior of Nursery School Children and Adult Procedures in Dealing with Such Behavior - M. AppelA Developmental Perspective on Antisocial Behavior - Gerald Patterson, Barbara DeBaryshe and Elizabeth RamseyDo Girls Manipulate and Boys Fight? Developmental Trends in Regard to Direct and Indirect Aggression - Kaj Bjorkqvist, Kirsti Lagerspetz and Ari KaukainenRelational Aggression, Gender, and Social-Psychological Adjustment - Nicki Crick and Jennifer GrotpeterThe Joint Development of Physical and Indirect Aggression: Predictors of Continuity and Change During Childhood - Sylvana Côté et al.Part Three: Prejudice, Intergroup Attitudes and Social ExclusionThe Development in Children of the Idea of the Homeland and of Relations with Other Countries - J. Piaget and A. WeilA Longitudinal Study of White Children′s Racial Prejudice as a Social-Cognitive Development - A. Doyle and F. AboudChildren′s Social Reasoning about Inclusion and Exclusion in Gender and Race Peer Group Contexts - Melanie Killen and Charles StangorSocial Norms and Self-Presentation: Children′s Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Attitudes - Adam Rutland, Lindsey Cameron, Alan Milne and Peter McGeorgePart Four: BullyingBullying as a Group Process: Participant Roles and Their Relations to Social Status within the Group - Christina Salmivalli et al.Bullying and Theory of Mind: A Critique of the ‘Social Skills Deficit’ View of Anti-Social Behaviour - Jon Sutton, Peter Smith and John SwettenhamThe Power of Friendship: Protection against an Escalating Cycle of Peer Victimisation - Ernest Hodges, Michael Boivin, Frank Vitaro and William BukowskiPrevalence Estimation of School Bullying with the Olweus Bully/Victim Questionnaire - Mona Solberg and Dan OlweusVOLUME FOUR: DEVELOPMENT OF MORALITY, PRO-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR AND EMOTIONPart One: Prosocial BehaviourChildren’s Differentiations among Potential Recipients of Aid - Nancy EisenbergA Cross-National Study on the Relations among Prosocial Moral Reasoning, Gender Role Orientations, and Prosocial Behaviors - Gustavo Carlo et al.Part Two: Empathy and EmotionDevelopmental Synthesis of Affect and Cognition and Its Implications for Altruistic Motivation - Martin HoffmanPsychophysiological Correlates of Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors in Preschool Children with Behavior Problems - Carolyn Zahn-Waxler et al.The Development of Concern for Others in Children with Behavior Problems - Paul Hastings et al.Part Three: Moral DevelopmentSocial Interactions and the Development of Social Concepts in Preschool Children - Larry Nucci and Elliot TurielPreschool Children’s Conceptions of Moral and Social Rules - Judith SmetanaCross-Cultural Universality of Social-Moral Development: A Critical Review of Kohlbergian Research - J. Snarey‘Any Animal Whatever’: Darwinian Building Blocks of Morality in Monkeys and Apes - Jessica Flack and Frans de WaalMoral Stage Theory - Daniel LapsleyThe Development of Children′s Orientations toward Moral, Social, and Personal Orders: More than a Sequence in Development - Elliot TurielPart Four: Moral Reasoning and RightsChildren′s Concepts of Their Rights - Gary MeltonThe Relation between Law and Morality: Children’s Reasoning about Socially Beneficial and Unjust Laws - Charles Helwig and Urszula JasiobedzkaVOLUME FIVE: CULTURAL DIFFERENCES AND THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESPart One: Biological PerspectivesSocial Rehabilitation of Isolate-Reared Monkeys - Stephen Suomi and Hary HarlowChild Development and Evolutionary Psychology - David Bjorklund and Anthony PellegriniWhy Are Children in the Same Family So Different? Nonshared Environment a Decade Later - Robert Plomin, Kathryn Asbury and Judith DunnEvidence That the Cycle of Violence in Maltreated Children Depends on Genotype - Avshalom Caspi et al.Humans Have Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis - Esther Herrmann et al.Part Two: Socio-Cultural PerspectivesRelations of Child Training to Subsistence Economy - Herbert Barry, Irvin Child and Margaret BaconLittle Angels, Little Devils: A Sociology of Children - Anthony SynnottThe Developmental Niche: A Conceptualization at the Interface of Child and Culture - Charles Super and Sara HarknessChildren′s Daily Activities in a Mayan Village: A Culturally Grounded Description - Suzanne GaskinsCultural-Historical Activity Theory in the Family of Social-Cultural Approaches - Michael ColePart Three: Theoretical Views/DebatesThe Nature and Uses of Immaturity - Jerome BrunerWhere Is the Child′s Environment? A Group Socialization Theory of Development - Judith Harris