Merrill-Palmer Quarterly Volume 61, Number 3, July 2015

This internationally acclaimed periodical features empirical and theoretical papers on child development and family-child relationships. A high-quality resource for researchers, writers, teachers, and practitioners, the journal contains up-to-date information on advances in developmental research on infants, children, adolescents, and families; summaries and integrations of research; commentaries by experts; and reviews of important new books in development.

Table of Contents

Children’s Judgments of Inequitable Distributions That Conform to Gender Norms
Clare Conry-Murray

Young Children’s Ability to Use Ordinal Labels in a Spatial Search Task
Stephanie E. Miller, Stuart Marcovitch, Janet J. Boseovski, and David J. Lewkowicz

Loneliness of Indonesian and Chinese Adolescents as Predicted by Relationships With Friends and Parents
Junsheng Liu, Dan Li, Urip Purwono, Xinyin Chen, and Doran C. French

Classroom and Teacher Support in Kindergarten: Associations With the Behavioral and Academic Adjustment of Low-Income Students
Phyllis Lee and Karen L. Bierman

Developmental Trajectories of Agency and Communion in Moral Motivation
Lawrence J. Walker and Jeremy A. Frimer