1st Edition

Experience and Development A Festschrift in Honor of Sandra Wood Scarr

Edited By Kathleen McCartney, Richard A. Weinberg Copyright 2009
    306 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
    by Psychology Press

    306 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
    by Psychology Press

    306 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
    by Psychology Press

    The scope of these chapters reflects the strong influence that Sandra Wood Scarr’s scholarship—her empirical research and theoretical contributions—has had on what we know about experience and development via the lens of the psychological sciences, especially the fields of developmental psychology, behavior genetics, early education and child care.

    K. McCartney, R. Weinberg, Preface. R. Weinberg, Sandra Wood Scarr: Her Intellectual History, Professional Journey, and Legacy. J. Arnett, J.L. Tanner, Toward a Cultural-Developmental Stage Theory of the Life Course. T.J. Bouchard Jr, Strong Inference: A Strategy for Advancing Psychological Science. R. Polomin, The Nature of Nurture. E. Turkheimer, K.P. Harden, B.D’Onofrio, I.I. Gottesman, The Scarr-Rowe Interaction Between Measured Socioeconomic Status and the Heritability of Cognitive Ability. K. McCartney, D. Berry, Whether the Environment Matters More for Children in Poverty. I.D. Waldman, Contributions of African-American Samples to Contemporary Molecular Genetic Research. K. Deater-Deckard, Parenting the Genotype. J. Dunn, Social Relationships and the Development of Understanding Others. M. McGue, W.G. Iacono, Siblings and the Socialization of Adolescent Deviance: An Adoption Study Approach. H.D. Grotevant, R.G. McRoy, Growing Up Adopted: Birth Parent Contact and Developmental Outcomes. C.P. Benbow, D. Lubinski, Extending Sandra Scarr’s Ideas About Development to the Longitudinal Study of Intellectually Precocious Youth. S.W. Scarr, Epilogue.

    Biography

    Kathleen McCartney, Richard A. Weinberg

    "In our analysis Experience and Development: A Festschrift in Honor of Sandra Wood Scarr emerges as an exemplar Festschrift, not only providing...Scarr's contributions to developmental psychology but also serving as a very real tribute, one both shown and told. Those authors' respective works are...well articulated, and provocative intersections between pure and applied social science. One area...the book clearly shines is in its consistent presentation of information, both about Scarr's own work and about other scholars' extensions of her ideas...where Experience and Development really excels is in meeting the function of Festschrift. Consistently, all the contributors, depict Scarr as providing not merely an innovative theoretical approach but more critically a mature and sophisticated model of a true scientist. We must as well consider ourselves her students, we are better for reading Experience and Development". -Goudge, Jennifer and Rupp, Gabriel for PsycCRITIQUES