Social Cognition and Social Development
A Sociocultural Perspective

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Part I. Introduction:
1. What's social about social-cognitive development? Diane N. Ruble, E. Tory Higgins and Willard W. Hartup
Part II. Social Understanding and Interpersonal Relations:
2. Social cognition and the social life of the child: stages as subcultures E. Tory Higgins and Jacquelynne Eccles Parsons
3. Beyond the information processed: socializations in the development of attributional processes Philip R. Constanzo and Theodore H. Dix
4. Social cognition and social interaction in childhood Willard W. Hartup, Judith E. Brady and Andrew F. Newcomb
5. Social antecedents, cognitive processing and comprehension of social portrayals on television W. Andrew Collins
6. The development of social-comparison processes and their role in achievement-related self-socialization Diane N. Ruble
7. Social cognition, social behaviour, and children's friendships Thomas J. Berndt
Part III. Value Internalization and Moral Development:
8. Culture as a cognitive system: differentiated rule understandings in children and other savages Deborah L. Pool, Richard A. Schweder and Nancy C. Much
9. Development of interpersonal values Walter Emmerich and Karla Shepard Goldman
10. Affective and cognitive processes in moral internalization Martin L. Hoffman
11. The internalization of altruistic dispositions: a cognitive analysis Joan E. Grusec
12. Social-control processes and the internalization of social values: an attributional perspective Mark R. Lepper
Part IV. Commentary and Overview:
13. Interaction and development in social cognition Elliot Turiel
14. Let's not overattribute to the attribution process: comments on social cognition and behavior Eleanor E. Maccoby
15. Five questions for research in social cognitive development William Damon
16. What would my mother say? Reactions to gleanings from developmental studies on social cognition Tom Trabsso
Index.