Handbook of Jealousy: Theory, Research, and Multidisciplinary Approaches - Softcover

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Sybil L. Hart is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University. Professor Hart is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Council Award for Distinguished Research and the Presidential Book Award from Texas Tech University. Her groundbreaking studies on infant jealousy have been published in Infancy, Social Development, and Child Psychiatry and Human Development. She is also the author of Preventing Sibling Rivalry (2001). Her research on infant jealousy has been funded by the National Institutes of Health-National Institute of Mental Health (NIH-NIMH).

Maria Legerstee is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, York University, Toronto, Canada, and the Director of the Centre for Research in Infancy. She is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Research. Her research focuses on social cognitive development from infancy through early childhood. Professor Legerstee is also the author of Infants’ Sense of People: Precursors to a Theory of Mind (2005); co-editor of a special journal series with Vasu Reddy entitled What Does It Mean to Communicate for Infants? (2007); and co-editor of Early Socio-Cognitive Development: An Integrative Perspective with David Haley and Marc Bornstein (forthcoming). Professor Legerstee’s research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada).

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“Given its comprehensiveness and attention to both basic and applied issues, this is a volume that anyone wishing to understand the development of jealousy simply must consult. Highly
recommended.” CHOICE

Wiley-Blackwell’s Handbook of Jealousy presents an informative and integrated portrait of the emerging areas of research on the nature of jealousy, as well as a forum for discussing the implications of these findings for theories of emotional and socio-cognitive development. Through attention to jealousy’s structure and function across age and cognitive status in humans and non-humans, within a range of social, cultural, and historical contexts, this carefully chosen compilation of 23 interdisciplinary articles captures the processes by which jealousy unfolds, as well as the familial, cultural, cognitive, and biological factors that drive its presentation.

A distinguished group of authors address a variety of relevant topics stimulated by recent advances in empirical and theoretical treatments across a range of disciplines. Original empirical papers based on new discoveries are included, along with intriguing theoretical papers and commentaries that address factors which influence or help explain jealousy’s appearance and meaning. The articles also integrate new findings within extant literatures on a variety of topics, and carve out numerous new questions for stimulating further research. Journeying deep into the recesses of the human mind, the Handbook of Jealousy provides rich and profound insights into a powerful and universal emotion.