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Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy Sybil L. Hart

Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy By Sybil L. Hart

Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy by Sybil L. Hart

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This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during which particular types of adaptations arose as a consequence of certain environmental pressures.

Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy Summary

Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy by Sybil L. Hart

This unique volume is one of the first of its kind to examine infancy through an evolutionary lens, identifying infancy as a discrete stage during which particular types of adaptations arose as a consequence of certain environmental pressures. Infancy is a crucial time period in psychological development, and evolutionary psychologists are increasingly recognizing that natural selection has operated on all stages of development, not just adulthood. The volume addresses this crucial change in perspective by highlighting research across diverse disciplines including developmental psychology, evolutionary developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, nutrition, and primatology. Chapters are grouped into four sections:

  1. Theoretical Underpinnings
  2. Brain and Cognitive Development
  3. Social/Emotional Development
  4. Life and Death

Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy sheds new light on our understanding of the human brain andthe environments responsible for shaping the brain during early stages of development. This book will be of interest to evolutionary psychologists and developmental psychologists, biologists, and anthropologists, as well as scholars more broadly interested in infancy.

About Sybil L. Hart

Sybil L. Hart holds the position of Professor Emerita at Texas Tech University. Her books include Preventing Sibling Rivalry (Simon & Schuster), Handbook of Jealousy Jealousy: Theory, Research, and Multidisciplinary Approaches (Wiley-Blackwell), Infant Jealousy: Responses to Differential Treatment (Springer), and The Psychology of Rivalry (Nova). She has been the recipient of numerous awards from Texas Tech University, including the Chancellors Council Award for Distinguished Research, the Presidential Book Award, and the Barnie E. Rushing, Jr. Faculty Distinguished Research Award, as well as grant support from the National Institutes of Health. Her research on jealousy in infants has also attracted press coverage in national and international outlets such as Newsweek, Der Spiegel, and the NBC Today show. Her current research interests focus on the role of exclusivity in intimate relationships and lactation.

  • B.Ed. (Education), 1978, McGillUniversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • M.A. (Educational Psychology), McGill University, Montreal, Quebec Canada
  • Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology), 1995, Tufts University, Boston, MA


David F. Bjorklund is a Professor of Psychology at Florida Atlantic University where teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in developmental and evolutionary psychology. He served as Associate Editor of Child Development (1997-2001) and is currently serving as Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (since 2007). His books include The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology (with Anthony Pellegrini); Origins of the Social Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and Child Development (edited with Bruce Ellis); Why Youth is Not Wasted on the Young: Immaturity in Human Development; Child and Adolescent Development: An Integrative Approach (with Carlos Hernandez Blasi); Psychology (with Peter Gray), and Children's Thinking: Cognitive Development and Individual Differences, now in its sixth edition. His current research interests include children's cognitive development and evolutionary developmental psychology.

  • B.A. (Psychology), 1971, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  • M.A. (Psychology), 1973, University of Dayton
  • Ph.D. (Developmental Psychology), 1976, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Honorary Doctorate (Doctor philosophiae honoris causa), University of Bern, Switzerland, 2015


Table of Contents

I. Theoretical Underpinnings.- 1. Preface/Introduction:Infancy through the lens of evolutionary developmental psychology.- 2. Human evolution and the neotenous infant.- 3. Cultures of infancy (and EEA).- 4. Primate infants.- II. Brain and Cognitive Development.- 5. Core knowledge.- 6. Social cognition.- 7. Social/moral cognition in young infants.- 8. Infant brain development, plasticity, and recovery of function.- 9. Music and language acquisition.- III. Social/Emotional Development.- 10. Infant emotions.- 11. Jealousy and the Biobehavioral Shift: Why theTerrible Twosare Terrible.- 12. Maternal caregiving and mother-to-infant attachment: Adaptations to ancestral infants three-year period of dependence on breast milk.- 13. Touch/skin-to-skin contact.- 14. Attachment.- 15. Father-infant attachment relationships.- IV. Life and Death.- 16. Prenatal effects (predictive adaptive responses).- 17. Human birth.- 18. Infanticide/abandonment.- 19. Infant mortality.- 20. Mortality in relation to nutrition.

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NPB9783030760021
9783030760021
3030760022
Evolutionary Perspectives on Infancy by Sybil L. Hart
Sybil L. Hart
Evolutionary Psychology
New
Paperback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022-12-23
386
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