Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from January 2004

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from January 2004

Editorial.
January 1, 2004... Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Objectives A principal objective for Merrill-Palmer Quarterly during this editorial term is to maintain the standards of excellence established by the past Editor, Dr. Carolyn U. Shantz, and continue to advance the...

Dr. Richard Fabes concludes term as associate editor of the Quarterly.(Quarterly Developments)
January 1, 2004... It is with regret that I announce the departure of Dr. Richard Fabes from the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Editorial staff. Dr. Fabes recently completed a 3-year term (2001 to 2003) as Associate Editor of the Quarterly. The current Associate...

Dr. Marion Underwood appointed associate editor of the Quarterly.(Quarterly Developments)
January 1, 2004... I am pleased to announce that Dr. Marion K. Underwood has accepted the position of Associate Editor with the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly. Dr. Underwood is Associate Professor of Psychology in the School of Human Development at the University of...

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly.
January 1, 2004... The academic year 2004-2005 marks the 50th anniversary of the Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Journal of Developmental Psychology. This occasion provides an opportunity to celebrate the journal's heritage, its long history of scholarly...

Aggressive victims, passive victims, and bullies: developmental continuity or developmental change?
January 1, 2004... We evaluated the extent to which aggressive victims show unique developmental pathways that are different from those of passive victims, bullies, and uninvolved children. A total of 1,722 children were followed from 4th grade to 6th grade, and...

Young children's personal accounts of their sibling disputes.
January 1, 2004... We investigated children's personal representations of significant sibling conflicts. Forty pairs of siblings were interviewed separately about the same disputes. Although they described the same episodes, both older (M age = 7.0) and younger...

Shading the truth: self-serving biases in children's reports of sibling conflicts.
January 1, 2004... Siblings between 4 1/2 and 9 1/2 were interviewed concerning positive and negative actions of self or sibling that either did or did not occur in past conflicts, and then asked to describe these disputes. Children evidenced self-serving biases,...

Valence effects in reasoning about evaluative traits.
January 1, 2004... Reasoning about evaluative traits was investigated among a group of 7- and 8-year-olds (N = 34), a group of 11- to 13-year olds (N = 25), and a group of adults (N = 23) to determine whether their inferences would be sensitive to the valence of...

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2004... Vol. 44, No. 3 (July, 1998). The text shown in italics below was omitted from the last sentence beginning on page 315 of Degirmencioglu, Urberg, Tolson, and Richard's "Adolescent Friendship Networks: Continuity and Change Over a School...