Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child
development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are
compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook
of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social
understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 3: Social, Emotional, and
Personality Development, edited by Nancy Eisenberg, Arizona State University, covers …

Scholarly handbooks play several key roles in their disciplines. First and foremost, they
reflect recent changes in the field as well as classic works that have survived those changes.
In this sense, all handbooks present their editors' and authors' best judgments about what is
most important to know in the field at the time of publication. But many handbooks also
influence the fields that they report on. Scholars look to them for sources of information and
inspiration to guide their own work. Within the field of human development, the Handbook of …