Richard M. Lerner is the Bergstrom Chair in Applied Developmental Science and the Director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. A developmental psychologist, he has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychological Society. Lerner is the author or editor of 65 books and more than 450 scholarly articles and chapters. Michael E. Lamb is Professor of Psychology in the Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge and previously served as Head of the Section on Social and Emotional Development at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development near Washington DC. He He has written several hundred professional publications on social and emotional development, especially in infancy and early childhood. Alexandra M. Freund is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich. Together with Paul B. Baltes in Berlin at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, she started and co-directed the project "Personal Goals in Lifespan Development" in 2002-2003. Her recent publications are primarily concerned with the development of motivational process in adulthood.

VOLUME II: Social and Emotional Development.

Handbook Preface (Richard M. Lerner Tufts University).

1. Introduction: Social and Emotional Development across theLife Span (Alexandra M. Freund University of Zurich, Michael LambUniversity of Cambridge).

2. Neurobiological Bases of Social Behavior across the Life Span(Stephen W. Porges and C. Sue Carter University of Illinois atChicago).

3. The Development of Emotion Regulation: A NeuropsychologicalPerspective (Marc D. Lewis, Rebecca Todd, and Xiaowen Xu Universityof Toronto).

4. Dynamic Integration of Emotion and Cognition: EquilibriumRegulation and Development (Gisela Labouvie-Vief University ofGeneva, Daniel Grühn North Carolina State University, JosephStuder University of Geneva).

5. Self-Regulation across the Life Span (G. John Geldhof, ToddD. Little, and John Colombo University of Kansas).

6. Self and Identity across the Life Span (Dan P. McAdams andKeith S. Cox Northwestern University).

7. Temperament and Personality through the Life Span (John E.Bates, Alice C. Schermerhorn, and Jackson A. Goodnight IndianaUniversity).

8. Life-Span Perspectives on Positive Personality Development inAdulthood and Old Age (Ursula M. Staudinger and Catherine BowenJacobs University Bremen).

9. Coping across the Life Span (Carolyn M. Aldwin Oregon StateUniversity, Loriena A.Yancura University of Hawai'i, Manoa, DariaK. Boeninger Arizona State University).

10. Gendered Behavior across the Life Span (Melissa HinesUniversity of Cambridge).

11. Intimate Relationships across the Life Span (Lisa M.Diamond, Christopher P. Fagundes, and Molly R. ButterworthUniversity of Utah).

12. Convoys of Social Relations: Integrating Life-Span andLife-Course Perspectives (Toni C. Antonucci University of Michigan,Katherine L. Fiori Adelphi University, Kira Birditt and Lisa M. H.Jackey University of Michigan).

13. Achievement Motives and Goals: A Developmental Analysis(Andrew J. Elliot University of Rochester, David E. Conroy ThePennsylvania State University, Kenneth E. Barron James MadisonUniversity, Kou Murayama Tokyo Institute of Technology).

14. Developmental Psychopathology (Dante Cicchetti University ofMinnesota).

15. Developing Civic Engagement within a Civic Context JonathanF. Zaff America's Promise Alliance (Daniel Hart Rutgers, the StateUniversity of New Jersey, Constance A. Flanagan The PennsylvaniaState University, James Youniss Catholic University of America,Peter Levine Tufts University).

16. Religious and Spiritual Development across the Life Span: ABehavioral and Social Science Perspective (W. George Scarlett andAmy Eva Warren Tufts University).