Social Cognitive Development

List of contributors; Editorial preface; 1. The 'intuitive scientist' formulation and its developmental implications Lee Ross; 2. The development of thoughts about animate and inanimate objects: implications for research on social cognition Rochel Gelman and Elizabeth Spelke; 3. Perspectives on the difference between understanding people and understanding things: the role of affect Martin L. Hoffman; 4. 'Concrete thinking' and the development of social cognition Stephen M. Kosslyn and Jerome Kagan; 5. Social cognition in a script framework Katherine Nelson; 6. Role taking and social judgment: alternative developmental perspectives and processes E. Tory Higgins; 7. Exploring children's social cognition on two fronts William Damon; 8. Relations between social cognition, nonsocial cognition, and social behavior: the case of friendship Thomas J. Berndt; 9. Self-referent thought: a developmental analysis of self-efficacy Albert Bandura; 10. Metacognition and the rules of delay Water Mischel; 11. Monitoring social cognitive enterprises: something else that may develop in the area of social cognition John H. Flavell; 12. The moral intuitions of the child Richard A. Schweder, Elliot Turiel, and Nancy C. Much; 13. Concluding remarks John H. Flavell and Lee Ross; Index.