Presents research and facts from the fields of psychology, individual and family studies, and education. Includes over 600 entries covering topics such as adolescence, cognitive development, education, family, gender differences, identity, longitudinal research, personality development, prenatal development, and temperament.

Includes more than 600 entries. Provide brief, clear explanations to the vast number of ideas and concepts that make up the intellectual and scientific content in the area of social psychology. Addresses concepts such as social loafing, deindividuation, base rate fallacy, ego depletion, and self-handicapping.

Provides an entry point into all of the existing literature on child development from numerous fields of study. Focuses on the developmental changes, when they occur, why they occur, how they occur, and those factors that influence that development. Emphasis is on normal growth and is primarily from a psychological perspective.