Methods and Models for Studying the Individual

How can the richness of individual lives be captured by the objective methods and statistical analyses of developmental research? Some of the leaders in developmental research pursue the answers to this question in this book. Each chapter is followed by a commentary and discussion by Marian Radke Yarrow.

Doreen Arcus: Department of Psychology, Harvard University Lars R. Bergman: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University Robert B. Cairns: Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina Avshalom Caspi: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin Mary S. DeLamatre: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Robert A. Hinde: Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, Madingley St. John's College, Cambridge Oliver P. John: Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley Lerome Kagan: Department of Psychology, Harvard University Kate Keenan: Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago Rolf Loeber: School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh David Magnusson: Department of Psychology, Stockholm University Barbara Maughan: Institute of Psychiatry, University of London Andrew Pickles: Institute of Psychiatry, University of London Lea Pulkkinen: Department of Psychology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Marian Radke-Yarrow: Scientist Emerita National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland Richard W. Robins: Department of Pyschology, University of California at Davis Philip C. Rodkin: Center for Developmental Science, University of North Carolina Sir Michael Rutter: Institute of Psychiatry, University of London Emily Simonoff: Institute of Psychiatry, University of London Nancy Snidman: Department of Psychology, Harvard University Joan Stevenson-Hinde: Sub-Department of Animal Behaviour, University of Cambridge Quanwu Zhang: Center for Law and Justice, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey