The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems
Title | The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Warren B Miller |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2001-11-30 |
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ISBN | 9781461515524 |
The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems
Title | The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Warren B. Miller |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 149 |
Release | 2011-06-28 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1461515513 |
The Ontogeny of Human Bonding Systems takes an interdisciplinary look at the phenomena of human bonding. The authors draw upon behavioral genetics, molecular genetics of behavior, cognitive and affective neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, human ethology, behavioral ecology, and the study of attachment processes within developmental psychology. The topics will emphasize human reproduction, and fertility-related behavior in particular, and the evolutionary origins and neural underpinnings of such behavior. This book is for anyone interested in the evolutionary origins, neural underpinnings, and psychological structure involved in human relationships.
Human Bonding
Title | Human Bonding PDF eBook |
Author | Cindy Hazan |
Publisher | Guilford Press |
Pages | 410 |
Release | 2013-06-10 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 1462510698 |
This tightly edited volume provides an integrative overview of human bonding from infancy through adulthood. Through an attachment lens, the book synthesizes classic and cutting-edge research on close relationships and their profound impact in everyday life. Topics include infant-caregiver attachment, human social nature, child and adolescent social development, mate selection, love and sexual desire, hooking up and online dating, keys to relationship success, predictors and consequences of relationship dissolution, and the role of social connectedness in psychological adjustment and physical health. Readers get a solid grounding in the concepts, theories, and methods that define contemporary relationship science.
Love
Title | Love PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | PediaPress |
Pages | 187 |
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Handbook of Attachment, Second Edition
Title | Handbook of Attachment, Second Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Jude Cassidy |
Publisher | Guilford Press |
Pages | 1050 |
Release | 2008-08-20 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
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"This comprehensive work is more than just the standard reference on attachment theory and research - it has helped to define and shape this rapidly growing field."--Inside jacket.
Becoming Human
Title | Becoming Human PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Tomasello |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 393 |
Release | 2019-01-07 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0674988639 |
Winner of the William James Book Award Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award “A landmark in our understanding of human development.” —Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You’re Told “Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can...be identified.” —Wall Street Journal Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Becoming Human looks instead to development and reveals how those things that make us unique are constructed during the first seven years of a child’s life. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tomasello draws from three decades of experimental research with chimpanzees, bonobos, and children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that differentiate humans from their primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities, but the maturation of humans’ evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality. “How does human psychological growth run in the first seven years, in particular how does it instill ‘culture’ in us? ...Most of all, how does the capacity for shared intentionality and self-regulation evolve in people? This is a very thoughtful and also important book.” —Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution “Theoretically daring and experimentally ingenious, Becoming Human squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes us human.” —Susan Gelman “Destined to become a classic. Anyone who is interested in cognitive science, child development, human evolution, or comparative psychology should read this book.” —Andrew Meltzoff
The Ecology of Human Development
Title | The Ecology of Human Development PDF eBook |
Author | Urie BRONFENBRENNER |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 349 |
Release | 2009-06-30 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 0674028848 |
Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world's foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the child's behavior sacrifice too much in order to gain experimental control and analytic rigor. Laboratory observations, he argues, too often lead to "the science of the strange behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time." To understand the way children actually develop, Bronfenbrenner believes that it will be necessary to observe their behavior in natural settings, while they are interacting with familiar adults over prolonged periods of time. This book offers an important blueprint for constructing such a new and ecologically valid psychology of development. The blueprint includes a complete conceptual framework for analysing the layers of the environment that have a formative influence on the child. This framework is applied to a variety of settings in which children commonly develop, ranging from the pediatric ward to daycare, school, and various family configurations. The result is a rich set of hypotheses about the developmental consequences of various types of environments. Where current research bears on these hypotheses, Bronfenbrenner marshals the data to show how an ecological theory can be tested. Where no relevant data exist, he suggests new and interesting ecological experiments that might be undertaken to resolve current unknowns. Bronfenbrenner's groundbreaking program for reform in developmental psychology is certain to be controversial. His argument flies in the face of standard psychological procedures and challenges psychology to become more relevant to the ways in which children actually develop. It is a challenge psychology can ill-afford to ignore.