One of the paradoxes in developmental theory is the child's simultaneous intrapsychic and interpsychic development. While the child is growing in mental capacity and struggling to define self, behaviors are also being learned whose function is to integrate self into a social network, which often means that egocentric behaviors are in conflict with sociocentric ones. This theory draws upon processes that promote both individual and social growth into a unified theory of development. A construct pertinent to almost all dimensions of psychological research, psychological distance is...

This text studies the cross-cultural roots of minority child development in their ancestral societies in a systematic way. It enlists insiders' and outsiders' perspectives on socialization and development in a diverse sampling of the world's cultures, including developing regions.