The scope of these chapters reflects the strong influence that Sandra Wood Scarr s scholarship her empirical research and theoretical contributions has had on what we know about experience and development via the lens of the psychological sciences, especially the fields of developmental psychology, behavior genetics, early education and child care.
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Author(s): Kathleen McCartney; Richard A. Weinberg
Series: Modern Pioneers in Psychological Science #3
Edition: Hardcover
Publisher: Psychology Press
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 297
Preface
1 Sandra Wood Scarr: Her Intellectual History, Professional Journey, and Legacy
RICHARD A. WEINBERG
2 Toward a Cultural-Developmental Stage Theory of the Life Course
JEFFREY JENSEN ARNETT AND JENNIFER LYNN TANNER
3 Strong Inference: A Strategy for Advancing Psychological Science
THOMAS J. BOUCHARD, JR.
4 The Nature of Nurture
ROBERT PLOMIN
5 The Scarr–Rowe Interaction between Measured Socioeconomic Status and the Heritability of Cognitive Ability
ERIC TURKHEIMER, K. PAIGE HARDEN, BRIAN D’ONOFRIO, AND IRVING I. GOTTESMAN
6 Whether the Environment Matters More for Children in Poverty
KATHLEEN MCCARTNEY AND DANIEL BERRY
7 Contributions of African-American Samples to Contemporary Molecular Genetic Research
IRWIN D. WALDMAN
8 Parenting the Genotype
KIRBY DEATER-DECKARD
9 Social Relationships and the Development of Understanding Others
JUDY DUNN
10 Siblings and the Socialization of Adolescent Deviance: An Adoption Study Approach
MATT MCGUE AND WILLIAM G. IACONO
11 Growing Up Adopted: Birth Parent Contact and Developmental Outcomes
HAROLD D. GROTEVANT AND RUTH G. MCROY
12 Extending Sandra Scarr’s Ideas about Development to the Longitudinal Study of Intellectually Precocious Youth
CAMILLA P. BENBOW AND DAVID LUBINSKI
Epilogue
SANDRA SCARR
Author Index
Subject Index
