- How Infants Know Minds
- Vasudevi Reddy
- Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a “theory of mind at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning. But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? Reddy deals with the persistent problem of “other minds” by proposing a “second-person” solution: we know other minds if we can respond to them. And we respond most richly in engagement with them.
- Hardcover 2008
- What Money Can't Buy
- Susan E. Mayer
- Children from poor families generally do much worse than children from affluent families. In an ingenious exploration of why this is so, Susan Mayer asks whether income directly affects children's life chances, as many experts believe, or if the factors that cause parents to have low incomes also impede their children's life chances. Mayer finds that regardless of the research technique, the effect of income on children's lives is smaller than many experts have thought.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- Young Minds in Social Worlds
- Katherine Nelson
- Katherine Nelson re-centers developmental psychology with a revived emphasis on development and change, rather than foundations and continuity. Nelson argues that a child's entrance into the community of minds is a gradual process with enormous consequences for child development, and the adults that they become.
- Hardcover 2007