A useful overview of topical research and theory concerning social cognition and social behaviour in children.

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.