Human Development

Description

1. A Cultural Approach to Human Development
2. Genetics and Prenatal Development
3. Birth and the Newborn Child
4. Infancy
5. Toddlerhood
6. Early Childhood
7. Middle Childhood
8. Adolescence
9. Emerging Adulthood
10. Young Adulthood
11. Middle Adulthood
12. Late Adulthood
13. Death and Afterlife Beliefs

New and updated features of this title

• UPDATED: For the 3rd edition, the authors have revised every chapter to incorporate the latest and most important human development research, as well as to enhance existing material. Highlights of new and updated content include:
• contemporary cognitive development research on object permanence across species, and the roles of babbling, gesturing, and turn-taking in the emergence of speech, in Chapter 4, Infancy
• updated information on the diets of American children, including the roles of SES, ethnicity, and immigrant generation, in Chapter 6, Early Childhood
• a new section on executive function in middle childhood, including the impact of physical exercise and multilingualism, in Chapter 7, Middle Childhood
• new information about sleep in emerging adulthood, including the concepts of delayed sleep phase syndrome and sleep debt, in Chapter 9, Emerging Adulthood
• introduction of the concept of the bridge job, in which older workers reduce their work hours but remain in the labor force or take another job that is less demanding, in Chapter 12, Late Adulthood

About our authors

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett is a Research Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1986 from the University of Virginia, and did 3 years of postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago. From 1992 through 1998 he was Associate Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Missouri, where he taught a 300-student life span development course every semester. In the fall of 2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark; in 2010 and 2011 he was the Nehru Chair at Maharaja Sayajirao University in India; and in 2017 and 2018 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux in France. His primary scholarly interest for the past 20 years has been in emerging adulthood. He coined the term, and he has conducted research on emerging adults concerning a wide variety of topics, involving several different ethnic groups in American society. He is the Founding President and Executive Director of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA; www.ssea.org). From 2005 to 2014 he was the editor of the Journal of Adolescent Research, and currently he is on the Editorial Board of JAR and 5 other journals. He has published many theoretical and research papers on emerging adulthood in peer-reviewed journals, as well as the book Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties (2015, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press), among many others. For more information, see www.jeffreyarnett.com.

Lene Arnett Jensen is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology in 1994 from the University of Chicago, and did a 1-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to Clark University, she taught at the University of Missouri and Catholic University of America. She has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Aalborg University in Denmark, Maharaja Sayajirao University in India, and the University of Bordeaux in France. She aims through scholarship and professional collaboration to move the discipline of psychology toward understanding development both in terms of what is universal and what is cultural. She terms this a “cultural-developmental approach.” Her research addresses moral development and cultural identity formation. Together with her students, she has conducted research in countries such as Denmark, India, Thailand, Turkey and the United States. Her publications include New Horizons in Developmental Theory and Research (2005, with Reed Larson, Jossey-Bass/Wiley), Immigrant Civic Engagement: New Translations (2008, with Constance Flanagan, Taylor-Francis), Bridging Cultural and Developmental Psychology: New Syntheses for Theory, Research and Policy (2011, Oxford University Press), the Oxford Handbook of Human Development and Culture (2015, Oxford University Press), Moral Development in a Global World: Research from a Cultural-Developmental Perspective (2015, Cambridge University Press) and the Oxford Handbook of Moral Development (forthcoming, Oxford University Press). From 2004 to 2015, she was editor-in-chief for the journal New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (with Reed Larson). She served as program chair for the 2012 biennial conference of the Society for Research on Adolescence (with Xinyin Chen), and currently serves on awards committees for the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD) and the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA). For more information, see www.lenearnettjensen.com.

Jeff and Lene live in Worcester, Massachusetts, with their twins, Miles and Paris.

For courses in Lifespan Development
Help students understand how culture impacts development — and why it matters
Human Development: A Cultural Approach leads students to examine all stages of development through the engaging lens of culture. Jeffrey Jensen Arnett and new coauthor Lene Arnett Jensen integrate cross-cultural examples throughout the narrative to reveal the impact of cultural factors both in the US and around the world. The 3rd Edition includes thoroughly updated research and data for a learning experience that best prepares students to face challenges in our diverse and globalized world — whether they travel the globe or remain in their hometowns.
Human Development: A Cultural Approach, 3rd Edition is also available via RevelTM, an interactive learning environment that enables students to read, practice, and study in one continuous experience.

Hallmark features of this title

• Chapters devoted to toddlerhood and emerging adulthood, sometimes overlooked stages of development, help paint a detailed picture of human development.
• Examples of domestic culture integrated throughout the text show students that culture is present everywhere, both at home and abroad.
• Cultural Focus features highlight how culture impacts various aspects of development, such as gross motor development and family relationships.
• Research Focus features describe a particular research study, including its premises, methods, results and limitations.
• Infographic maps help provide a geographic and cultural context for variations in development.
• Personal anecdotes about the authors’ own children serve as enjoyable, real life-examples of developmental science.

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