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Human Development This journal offers new insights into human development throughout the life span Contributions come primarily from developmental psychology.

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes in-depth conceptual articles, commentaries, and essay book reviews that advance our understanding of de­velopmental phenomena. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and potentially powerful ideas, and differentiate key constructs. Contributions are also welcomed from varied disciplines, including anthropology, biology, education, history, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

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05/10/2021

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We are delighted to announce the release of Issue 1! This issue includes a thoughtful collection of manuscripts and comm...
29/04/2021

We are delighted to announce the release of Issue 1! This issue includes a thoughtful collection of manuscripts and commentaries, featuring a free-access paper entitled "Exploring Conceptual Frameworks Guiding Developmental Research and Practice in Higher Education: Some Challenges for Transdisciplinary Work" by Nancy Budwig and Achu Johnson Alexander. Please check out the issue here: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/280099

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, fl...

We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue entitled "Globalization, Culture, & Development: Insights ...
12/03/2021

We are pleased to announce the publication of a special issue entitled "Globalization, Culture, & Development: Insights and Alternatives in the Contemporary World." Please check out the articles, including free access to "Culture-Sensitive Communication in Applied Developmental Research" by Robert Serpell, at the following link: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/280470

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, fl...

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02/03/2021

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We are delighted to announce the release of Issue 3! This issue features a powerful and timely Editor's Corner piece ent...
09/02/2021

We are delighted to announce the release of Issue 3! This issue features a powerful and timely Editor's Corner piece entitled "Eugenics, Prejudice, and Psychological Research" by Elliot Turiel. This must-read article is free to access, so please check it and the other articles out here: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/279722

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, fl...

20/11/2020

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20/11/2020

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29/10/2020
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We are excited to announce the release of Issue 2! This issue features an Editor’s Corner entitled "Development Perspective on 'How Emotions are Made’”, accompanied by a fascinating commentary by Lisa Feldman Barrett.

View the issue here: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/279560

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, fl...

29/06/2020
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We are pleased to announce the release of a new issue! It features an Editor’s Corner and reply commentary, which provide a dynamic discussion on processing demands in false-belief tasks, as well as an original piece by Xia, Li & Tudge, entitled ”Operationalizing Urie Bronfenbrenner’s Process-Person-Context-Time Model.”

Please check out the issue at the link below: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/279255

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, fl...

13/03/2020

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Welcome on board, Susan Rivera! 🎉
Susan is our new editor-in-chief of Human Development, from UC Davis. She succeeds Larry Nucci who led the journal for the last 13 years. 👏
Read the editorial here ➡️ http://ow.ly/b1xd50yIzqk

24/01/2020
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We are delighted to announce the release of a new special double issue entitled "Conceptualizing the Dynamics of Development in the 21st Century: Process, (Inter)Action, and Complexity".

Many great articles so check it out here: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/278968

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within conceptual, historical, and methodological frameworks. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, fl...

19/11/2019
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We are very pleased to announce the release of a new issue! Featuring a highly original piece by Laura Sterponi: "Language in the Senses: On Autistic Engagement with Words."

All major papers in this issue are free access at the link below:

https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/278969

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes in-depth conceptual articles, commentaries, opinion pieces, and book reviews that advance our understanding of de­velopmental phenomena. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and ...

10/07/2019
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We are delighted to announce the release of Issue 4! Featuring an original manuscript by Martin Packer and Michael Cole: "Evolution and ontogenesis: The Deontic Niche of Human Development."

Check it out here: https://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/278554

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes in-depth conceptual articles, commentaries, and essay book reviews that advance our understanding of de­velopmental phenomena. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and potentiall...

22/06/2019
Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?

We are pleased to announce the Release of Issue 3 of Human Development!

Highlight: Check out an original paper by Catherine Darnell, Liz Gulliford, Kristján Kristjánsson and Panos Paris: "Phronesis and the Knowledge-Action Gap in Moral Psychology and Moral Education: A New Synthesis?"

https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/496136

Fantastic commentaries provided by Dan Lapsley and Tobias Krettenauer!

This article has two aims. First, to offer a critical review of the literatures on two well-known single-component solutions to the problem of a gap between moral knowledge and moral action: moral identity and moral emotions. Second, to take seriously the rising interest in Aristotle-inspired virtue...

16/04/2019
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We are delighted to announce that a special issue of Human Development has been released! The topic of the issue, edited by Carol D. Lee and Colette Daiute, is: "Developmental Digital Technologies in Human History, Culture, and Well-Being."

View the issue here!

http://www.karger.com/Journal/Issue/278351

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes in-depth conceptual articles, commentaries, and essay book reviews that advance our understanding of de­velopmental phenomena. Contributions serve to raise theoretical issues, flesh out interesting and potentiall...

14/02/2019
Reimagining Social and Emotional Development: Accommodation and Resistance to Dominant Ideologies in the Identities and Friendships of Boys of Color

We are excited to announce the release of Issue 6!

Check out an original article by Professors Onnie Rogers and Niobe Way: "Reimagining Social and Emotional Development: Accommodation and Resistance to Dominant Ideologies in the Identities and Friendships of Boys of Color."

This ground breaking article provides new insights into the processes by which adolescent boys of color negotiate establishing friendships within a racialized and genderized peer and larger culture.

Commentary by Na'ilah Nasir!

Abstract: https://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/493378

Human development is largely studied as a process of internalizing or accommodating to dominant cultural ideologies, with the implicit assumption that such a process is healthy and desirable. Ideologies, however, not only entail positive beliefs (e.g., family is important); they also contain dehuman...

30/10/2018
Membership in the Jean Piaget Society

We are excited to announce a partnership with the Jean Piaget Society organization and conference!

Beginning in October 2018, there will be a $50 regular membership fee to join JPS and a $30 membership fee for students, post-docs, and emeritus or retired members. This fee will cover your membership to JPS for the 2019 calendar year, and includes a subscription to Human Development!

For more information, see here: http://www.piaget.org/membership.html

In the past few years, our membership fee has been included in our conference registration costs, providing no means of allowing for the continuing membership of those who miss a particular meeting. For 2019 forward, we are instead instituting a new and, we believe, sounder way of tracking our membe...

25/10/2018

We are delighted to announce the release of a special issue on Early Moral Development, edited by Dr. Judith Smetana. Authors from multiple developmental perspectives offer approaches to researching morality in young children, and pose insights and questions for the future of the field. We hope you enjoy this exceptional collection of original papers by leading researchers!

22/08/2018

Human Development Readers! Be sure to check out this MUST READ article in Issue 3:
"Metatheory and the Primacy of Conceptual Analysis in Developmental Science." (DOI:10.1159/000490160)
Five distinguished developmental scholars propose a meta-theoretical stance for developmental psychology based on a process relational framework. The authors challenge the positions staked out by contemporary "computational" views of human cognition, evolutionary psychology and other conventional perspectives.

16/08/2018

We are excited to announce the official release of issue 3!

This issue includes exciting original papers by Virginia Flood, David Witherington, William Overton, Robert Lickliter, Peter Marshall, and Darcia Narvaez. Titles below!

Multimodal Revoicing as an Interactional Mechanism for Connecting Scientific and Everyday Concepts (DOI:10.1159/000488693)

Metatheory and the Primacy of Conceptual Analysis in Developmental Science (DOI:10.1159/000490160)

08/08/2018

New articles from Human Development have been released online! Check out Virginia Flood's original manuscript about multimodal revoicing as an interactional mechanism for connecting scientific and everyday concepts!

DOI:10.1159/000488693

03/07/2018
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27/06/2018

We are excited to announce the official release of Issue 2!

Original article on the maternal ecology of by Mackenzie Whipps et al., commentary by Robert Crosnoe, editor's corner by Steve Hinshaw and book reviews by Aerika Brittian Loyd, Robert Lickliter, and Phil Hammack.

17/05/2018

Check out the Editor's Corner from UC Berkeley's Steve Hinshaw about the impact and stigma of growing up with a parent who suffers from a mental disorder and what research tells about how to minimize the harmful effects.

https://doi-org.libproxy.berkeley.edu/10.1159/000487748

09/05/2018

New feature!! You can now preview upcoming Human Development articles online!

Check out Dr. Phil Hammack 's essay on gay men's identity development, as he reviews "Becoming Who I Am: Young Men on Being Gay" by Ritch C Savin-Williams PHD.

Link here!
https://doi.org/10.1159/000486469

05/04/2018

We are excited to announce the release of a new issue of Human Development! The issue includes a new major paper by Andreas Demetriou and colleagues about mapping the dimensions of general intelligence. Check out the figure below for a taste!

Commentaries by Philip Zelazo and Ulrich Mueller and Mauricio Garcia-Barrera. Also check out two new book reviews by David Moshman and David Bjorklund.

We welcome your feedback. All letters to the editor will be published online and in the journal. Check out the issue here!
https://www-karger-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/Journal/Issue/277219

21/03/2018

We are excited to announce the release of A Special Issue on Moral Development! This issue features a major paper from Larry Nucci, Elliot Turiel, and Alona Roded describing continuities and discontinuities in from childhood through adolescence. Commentaries from Charles Helwig and Kristin Lagattuta, and introduction by Special Issue Editor, Geoffrey Saxe.

Here's a sampling of the major findings:

(Full article here: https://www-karger-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/Article/FullText/484067)

07/12/2017

We are excited to announce a new issue of Human Development!

Original manuscripts include: Boris Zizek looking at ' interactions on MTV's A Thin Line, and Derek Montgomery looking at the origins of . Check out these articles, plus commentaries (FREE ACCESS!) by Amy Stornaiuolo, and Tim Racine!

https://www-karger-com.libproxy.berkeley.edu/Journal/Issue/276880

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