Social cognitive development : [electronic resource] frontiers and possible futures / edited by John H. Flavell and Lee Ross ; based on seminars sponsored by the Committee on Social and Affective Development During Childhood of the Social Science Research Council.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The "intuitive scientist" formulation and its developmental implications / Lee Ross -- The development of thoughts about animate and inanimate objects: implications for research on social cognition / Rochel Gelman and Elizabeth Spelke -- Perspectives on the difference between understanding people and understanding things: the role of affect / Martin L. Hoffman -- "Concrete thinking" and the development of social cognition / Stephen M. Kossyln and Jerome Kagan -- Social cognition in a script framework / Katherine Nelson -- Role taking and social judgment: alternative developmental perspectives and processes / E. Tory Higgins -- Exploring children's social cognition on two fronts / William Damon -- Relations between social cognition, nonsocial cognition, and social behavior: the case of friendship / Thomas J. Berndt -- Self-referent thought: a developmental analysis of self-efficacy / Albert Bandura -- Metacognition and the rules of delay / Water Mischel -- Monitoring social cognitive enterprises: something else that may develop in the area of social cognition / John H. Flavell -- The moral intuitions of the child / Richard A. Shweder, Elliot Turiel, and Nancy C. Much -- Concluding remarks / John H. Flavell and Lee Ross.