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"For students and researchers alike, this overview encompasses the field of evolutionary developmental psychology. Written by world-renowned experts, the chapters provide essential reading for those studying developmental, evolutionary, clinical, and educational psychology as well as criminology, human genetics and the wider social sciences"--
List of contents
Introduction: the evolutionary perspective in developmental psychology Satoshi Kanazawa; Part I. Historical Background and Theoretical Foundations of Jay Belsky's Work in Evolutionary Developmental Psychology: 1. How Belsky's model of child abuse has transformed scientific understanding, clinical practice, and public policy Kenneth A. Dodge, W. Benjamin Goodman and Helen Milojevich; 2. A turning point for the life history approach to individual differences Marco del Giudice; 3. Individual differences in response to the environment: from diathesis-stress to differential susceptibility and vantage sensitivity Michael Pluess; Part II. Parent-Child Relations and Attachment: 4. Evolutionary lifespan models of attachment and reproductive strategies Ohad Szepsenwol and Jeffry A. Simpson; 5. Stability and change in attachment from preschool to adolescence Lars Wichstrøm; 6. The legacy of the determinants of parenting process model Sara R. Jaffee; Part III. Life-Course Development from Prenatal Environment Through Childhood to Adulthood: 7. School contexts, relationships with teachers, and child development Robert C. Pianta; 8. The childhood roots of vaccine hesitance and resistance: a 5-decade cohort study Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi and Richie Poulton; Part IV. Differential Susceptibility to Environmental Influences: 9. Unequal monks, unequal hoods: genetic differential susceptibility in experiments Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg and Marinus van IJzendoorn; 10. Child maltreatment and the development of multi-system resilience Dante Cicchetti; 11. Differential susceptibility and its application to understanding antisocial behavior Kevin M. Beaver; Conclusion: science, politics, and the two universal laws of human behavior Satoshi Kanazawa; Afterword: My 50-Year Friendship with Jay Belsky Laurence Steinberg; Biography of Jay Belsky Daniel W. Belsky.
