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This outstanding volume is a true tour de force. It tackles some of the most important and fundamental questions about how we develop as unique individuals in early childhood, around the globe and in our varied cultures. Written and edited by the world’s leading scientists of childhood temperament, the book describes in rich detail the rationale and major findings of their unique and methodologically rigorous collaborative study of toddlers in 14 countries spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The reasoning about the findings is guided by and integrated through a conceptual model that generates new knowledge and new hypotheses. It is a must-read for scholars and students of temperament and personality, individual differences, and cultural influences on human development. Kirby Deater-Deckard, PhD, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)

This outstanding volume is a true tour de force. It tackles some of the most important and fundamental questions about how we develop as unique individuals in early childhood, around the globe and in our varied cultures. Written and edited by the world's leading scientists of childhood temperament, the book describes in rich detail the rationale and major findings of their unique and methodologically rigorous collaborative study of toddlers in 14 countries spanning Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The reasoning about the findings is guided by and integrated through a conceptual model that generates new knowledge and new hypotheses. It is a must-read for scholars and students of temperament and personality, individual differences, and cultural influences on human development. Kirby Deater-Deckard, PhD, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)

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Maria A. Gartstein is a professor in the Washington State University (WSU) Department of Psychology and Director of ADVANCE at WSU. Dr. Gartstein has been studying temperament and cross-cultural differences for the past 20 years. The cross-cultural emphasis in part reflects her own experience as an immigrant, arriving in the US with her family as a child. Samuel P. Putnam is professor and chair of the Psychology Department at Bowdoin College, and Co-Chair of Undergraduate Research for the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS). His research concerns the measurement and structure of temperament, and how nature interacts with nurture to shape individual differences in children.

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