Advances in Child Development and Behavior

Professor Jeffrey J. Lockman got his Ph.D at the University of Minnesota. His research interests center on perception-action and cognitive development. In his recent work, he has been studying the development of tool use in children and how it might be related to the object manipulation skills of infants. Additionally, he has been conducting work on spatial cognition in children, focusing on how children code the location of objects and object features.

1. Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Afterschool Research
Deborah Lowe Vandell and Sandra D. Simpkins
2. Unraveling the Transracial Adoption Paradox: Construction race and racism in adoptive families
Richard M. Lee, Amelia Blankenau, Adam Kim and Oh Myo Kim
3. Risk and Resilience Models in Child Development
Rachel R. Romeo, S. Alexa McDorman and Ellie K. Taylor
4. The Dual Journey: The Development of Twins’ Relationships Throughout Childhood
Ariel Knafo and Hila Segal
5. Chapter title yet to be determined
Jessica A. Sommerville
6. A sociocultural perspective of multimodal learning by infants and young children
Su-hua Wang
7. Chapter title yet to be determined
Vikram K. Jaswal
8. Chapter title yet to be determined
Shannon M. Pruden
9. Defining the Role of Executive Function in Children's Sociomoral Reasoning
Stuart Marcovitch and Jessica Caporaso