Peter K. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the Unit for School and Family Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is co-author of the textbook Understanding Children's Development and co-editor of Bullying, Cyberbullying and Pupil Well-being in Schools: Comparing European, Australian, and Indian Perspectives, and The Cambridge Handbook of Play: Developmental and Disciplinary Perspectives.

Craig H. Hart is a Professor of Human Development in the School of Family Life and Director of the Faculty Center at Brigham Young University. He has authored or co-authored numerous scientific papers and book chapters on parenting/familial linkages with children's social development from a multicultural and US Asian immigration perspective, with an emphasis on Asian children. Dr. Hart has served in numerous university administrative capacities as well as on the Biobheavioral and Behavioral Sciences subcommittee, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

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Introduction
Peter K Smith & Craig H Hart
Part 1: Historical Overview
1. Conceptual and Empirical Precursors of Contemporary Social Development Research
Gary W. Ladd
Part II: Disciplinary Perspectives
2. Behavioural Genetics
Darya Gaysina
3. The Brain and Social Development in Childhood
Erin D. Bigler
4. Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Development
Lance Workman, Sandie Taylor and Jerome H. Barkow
5. Historical Devlopmental Psychology. Changing Conceptions of Child Development
Willem Koops
6. A Sociological Perspective on Social Development
Dimitra Hartas
7. Anthropological Perspectives on Social Development
Heather Montgomery
Part III: Ecological Contexts
8. Ecological Perspectives and Social Development
Rachel Maunder
9. The Physical Environment and Social Development
Sara S. Whipple and Gary W. Evans
10. Conflict, War, and Famine in Childhood: Risks and Resilience for Social Development
Charles N. Oberg, H.R. Hodges, and Ann S. Masten
11. Impact of the Climate Crisis on Children's Social Development
Ann Sanson, Karina V. Padilla Malca, and Judith Van Hoorn
12. COVID-19 and Children's Social Development: Insights from the Life Course Perspective
Rashmita S. Mistry, Aprile Benner, and Anna Kimura
Part IV Culture and Immigration
13. Culture and Children's Social Development
Xinyin Chin, Mengting Liu, and Qinglin Bian
14. The Social Development of Immigrant Children: A Focus on Asian and Latinx Children in the United States
Gustavo Carlo, Charissa S.L. Cheah, L. Diego Conejo, and Hyun Su Cho
15. Acculturation and Children's Social Development in Europe: Recent Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings
Sabahat Cigdem Bagci
Part V Child Characteristics
16. Temperament and Social Development in Childhood
Melis Yavuz, Irem Korucu, and Bilge Selcuk
17. Gender Differences in Children's Play
Karson T.F. Kung
18. Race and Ethnicity in the Context of Children's Social Development
Kathryn M. Yee, Jacquelyn Glidden, and Melanie Killen
19. Children's Social Development within the Context of Early Childhood Education
Linda A. White, Anika Ganness, and Michal Perlman
20. Children's Interpersonal Skills and School-Based Relationships: Links to School Adjustment in Early and Middle Childhood.
Becky Kochenderfer-Ladd, Gary W. Ladd, and Stephanie A. Thibault
21. The Personal and Social Development of Children in Sport
Jean Cote, Alex Murata, and Luc J. Martin
22. Religion and Social Development in Childhood
Daniel Moulin-Stozek and Michael W. James
Part VII The Family and the Peer Group
23. Parent-Child Attachment in Early and Middle Childhood
Laura E. Brumariu and Kathryn A. Kerns
24. Sibling Relations in Early and Middle Childhood
Nina Howe, Amy L. Paine, Hildy S. Ross, and Holly Recchia
25. The Interplay between Parents and Peers as Influences in Children's Social Development
Amanda W. Harrist and Anuradha J. Bakshi
Part VII Social Competence and Forms of Peer Interaction
26. Children's Friendships
Amanda J. Rose, Sara K. Boroski, Allie Spiekelman, and Rhiannon L. Smith
27. Social Withdrawal and Shyness
Julie C. Bowker, Robert J. Coplan, Kelly A. Smith, and Kenneth H. Rubin
28. Social Competence in Interactions with Peers
Antonius H. N. Cillessen and Amy D. Bellmore
29. Social Play and Social Development
Ageliki Nicolopoulou and Peter K. Smith
30. Cooperation and Competition
Marta Fulop
31. Aggression in Early and Middle Childhood
David A. Nelson, Cara S. Swit, and Craig H. Hart
32. Bullying
Rosario del Rey, Esperanza Espino, Monica Ojeda, and Joaquin A. Mora-Merchan
Part IX Cognitive, Emotional, Prosocial, and Moral Competencies
33. Social Cognition and its Main Correlates in Childhood
Daniella Bulgarelli, Anne Henning, and Evelyn Bertin
34. Emotions and Social Development in Childhood
Maria von Salisch, Katharina Voltmer, Rachel Miller-Slough, Jui Chih Chin and Susanne Denham
35. Prosocial Behavior
Hali Kil and Joan E. Grusec
36. Children's Lies: Intersecting Cognitive Development, Theory of Mind and Socialization
Laura Visu-Petra, Narcisa Prodan, and Victoria Talwar
Part X Children and the Media
37. Media and Children's Social Development
Eric E. Rasmussen and Kathrin Karsay
38. Social Networking Sites and Children's Social Development
Elisabeth Staksrud and Tijana Milosevic
Part XI Intervention and Social Development
39. Helping Autistic Children
Rachel Davis, Jacquiline den Houting, Anders Nordahl-Hansen, and Sue Fletcher Watson
40. Intervening in Childhood Social Development
Janis B. Kupersmidt, Alison E. Parker, and Mary Ellen Voegler-Lee
41. The Development of Social Competence in Children with Disabilities
Soo-Young Hong, Elizabeth Steed, Lori Meyer, and Ibrahim Acar
42. Interventions to Enhance Psychosocial Competence among Children in Low-and-Middle-Income Countries
Suman Verma