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.

Prefaceviii

Richard M. Lerner
Tufts University

Contributors xvii

1 Introduction: Social and Emotional Development across the Life Span1

Alexandra M. Freund
University of Zurich

Michael E. Lamb
University of Cambridge

2 Neurobiological Bases of Social Behavior across the Life Span9

Stephen W. Porges
University of Illinois at Chicago

C. Sue Carter
University of Illinois at Chicago

3 The Development of Emotion Regulation: A Neuropsychological Perspective51

Marc D. Lewis
University of Toronto

Rebecca Todd
University of Toronto

Xiaowen Xu
University of Toronto

4 Dynamic Integration of Emotion and Cognition: Equilibrium Regulation in Development and Aging79

Gisela Labouvie-Vief
University of Geneva

Daniel Grühn
North Carolina State University

Joseph Studer
University of Geneva

5 Self-Regulation across the Life Span116

G. John Geldhof
University of Kansas

Todd D. Little
University of Kansas

John Colombo
University of Kansas

6 Self and Identity across the Life Span158

Dan P. McAdams
Northwestern University

Keith S. Cox
Northwestern University

7 Temperament and Personality through the Life Span208

John E. Bates
Indiana University

Alice C. Schermerhorn
Indiana University

Jackson A. Goodnight
Indiana University

8 Life-Span Perspectives on Positive Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age254

Ursula M. Staudinger
Jacobs University Bremen

Catherine E. Bowen
Jacobs University Bremen

9 Coping across the Life Span298

Carolyn M. Aldwin
Oregon State University

Loriena A. Yancura
University of Hawaii, Manoa

Daria K. Boeninger
Arizona State University

10 Gendered Behavior across the Life Span341

Melissa Hines
University of Cambridge

11 Intimate Relationships across the Life Span379

Lisa M. Diamond
University of Utah

Christopher P. Fagundes
University of Utah

Molly R. Butterworth
University of Utah

12 Convoys of Social Relations: Integrating Life-Span and Life-Course Perspectives434

Toni C. Antonucci
University of Michigan

Katherine L. Fiori
Adelphi University

Kira Birditt
University of Michigan

Lisa M. H. Jackey
University of Michigan

13 Achievement Motives and Goals: A Developmental Analysis474

Andrew J. Elliot
University of Rochester

David E. Conroy
The Pennsylvania State University

Kenneth E. Barron
James Madison University

Kou Murayama
Tokyo Institute of Technology

14 Developmental Psychopathology511

Dante Cicchetti
University of Minnesota

15 Developing Civic Engagement within a Civic Context590

Jonathan F. Zaff
Americas Promise Alliance

Daniel Hart
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Constance A. Flanagan
The Pennsylvania State University

James Youniss
Catholic University of America

Peter Levine
Tufts University

16 Religious and Spiritual Development across the Life Span: A Behavioral and Social Science Perspective631

W. George Scarlett
Tufts University

Amy Eva Alberts Warren
Tufts University

Author Index 683

Subject Index 722