The Beginnings of Social Understanding
Dunn, Judy (Institute of Psychiatry, London)
What do young children, as they grow from infancy to childhood, understand of others and of their social world? How does this understanding change, and what influences its development? The Beginnings of Social Understanding draws on detailed studies of children within their families - their disputes with mother and siblings, their empathy and cooperation, their pretend' stories and questions about others, and their jokes' - to show vividly how...