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Bowling Green State University and the University of Michigan
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University of California, Irvine, United States
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Lynne E. Baker-Ward, PhD
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Eric F. Dubow
Editor, Developmental Psychology
Department of Psychology
Bowling Green State University
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Department of Psychology
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- Parental Socialization of Emotion and Self-RegulationSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 56, No. 3, March 2020. Articles discuss the impact of emotion-related socialization behaviors on children’s emotion, self-regulation, and developmental outcomes.
- New Perspectives on the Development of Human EmotionSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 55, No. 9, September 2019. The issue is intended to present and highlight examples of innovative recent approaches and thinking to a range of questions about emotional development and to inspire new directions for future research.
- Identity Development Process and ContentSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 53, No. 11, November 2017. The articles examine identity in developmental stages ranging from early childhood to young adulthood, and represent samples from 5 different countries.
- Selective Social LearningSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 49, No. 3, March 2013. The articles pose important questions concerning how children learn from others, what the characteristic signatures of social learning might be, and how this learning changes over time.
- Violent ChildrenSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 39, No. 2, March 2003. Includes articles about conduct problems; exposure to TV violence and violent behavior in young adulthood; childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency; developmental pathways to severe conduct problems; physical aggression and expressive vocabulary; urban males' youth violence; a school-based violence prevention program; biological and social processes in relation to early-onset persistent aggression; and a biopsychosocial model of the development of chronic conduct problems.
- Social and Emotional DevelopmentSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 34, No. 4, July 1998. Four sections examine culture as it relates to emotional development; parenting and parent-child relationships; social cognition and social relationships; and social and emotional adjustment and maladjustment.
- Development, Transitions, and Adjustment in AdolescenceSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 32, No. 4, July 1996. Includes articles about environment, biology, and culture; developmental interface between nature and nurture; family environment; puberty; sexual intercourse; risk factors for binge drinking; kinship support and family management practices; and parenting behaviors.
- Sexual Orientation and Human DevelopmentSpecial issue of the APA journal Developmental Psychology, Vol. 31, No. 1, January 1995. The articles discuss development and other issues in sexual orientation, including prenatal estrogen; birth order and sibling sex ratio; childhood sex-typed behavior; pubertal maturation timing and self-esteem; victimization; prevalence, course, and predictors of multiple problem behaviors; developmental changes in relationship quality; transitions from heterosexuality to lesbianism; lesbian and heterosexual parents and their children; parents' division of labor and children's adjustment; and sexual orientation of adult sons of gay fathers.