Individuals as Producers of Their Own Development: The Dynamics of Person-Context Coactions [Paperback]

In this series, experts present collections of what they judge to be their most interesting publications. Professor Richard M. Lerner has been prominent in the application of developmental science across the lifespan, investigating relational development systems and their impact on positive youth development (PYD) and social justice.

Part I. Introduction: Development As Individual Context Relations Across Time and Place Part II. Empirical Beginnings Lerner, R. M., & Korn, S. J. (1972). The development of body-build stereotypes in males. Lerner, R. M., & Lerner, J. V. (1977). Effects of age, sex, and physical attractiveness on child-peer relations, academic performance, and elementary school adjustment. Part III. The Evolution of Dynamic, Relational Developmental Systems-Based Models Lerner, R. M. (1978). Nature, nurture, and dynamic interactionism. Lerner, R. M. (1982). Children and adolescents as producers of their own development. Lerner, R. M. (1991). Changing organismcontext relations as the basic process of development: A developmental contextual perspective. Lerner, R. M. (1996). Relative plasticity, integration, temporality, and diversity in human development: A developmental contextual perspective about theory, process, and method. Lerner, R. M., Agans, J. P., DeSouza, L. M., & Hershberg, R. M. (2014). Developmental science in 2025: A predictive review. Lerner, R. M., Lerner, J. V., & Chase, P. A. (2019). Toward enhancing the role of idiographic-based analyses in describing, explaining, and optimizing the study of human development: The sample case of adolescent family relationships. Part IV. Theory-Predicated Applications of Developmental Science and the Positive Youth Development Perspective Lerner, R. M., Fisher, C. B., & Weinberg, R. A. (2000). Toward a science for and of thlSg