Developmental Psychology: Revisiting the Classic Studies

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Alan Slater is Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of Exeter. He is the co-editor of The Blackwell Reader in Developmental Psychology (Blackwell 1999) Theories of Infant Development (Blackwell Publishing 2004) and An Introduction to Developmental Psychology (Wiley 2017) as well as the the 5-volume reference work Infancy (SAGE 2013). Paul C. Quinn is Trustees Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware USA. He received his ScB and PhD degrees in Psychology from Brown University in 1981 and 1986. Dr. Quinns research reflects an enduring interest in concept formation. His work over the last 20 years has been investigating how social category information is extracted from faces (e.g. gender race) and has the goal of understanding how the early emergence of cognitive organization during infancy may impact subsequent conceptual and social development. This work has been supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Science Foundation and has generated over 225 journal and book chapter publications along with a co-edited book The Making of Human Concepts (2010 Oxford Series in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience). Dr. Quinn is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association Association for Psychological Science and Psychonomic Society and in 2013 he received the Francis Alison Award (the University of Delawares highest faculty honor). He has been editor of Developmental Science since 2009.