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Socioemotional and Cognitive Competence in Infancy

Paradigms, Assessment Strategies, and Implications for Intervention

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Improving Competence across the Lifespan

This chapter was written with the support of Conseil Quebecois de la Recherche Sociale and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The authors thank Nadine Girouard, Mandy Steinman and Barbara Welburn for their help with preparation of the final version of the chapter, and Dolores Pushkar for editorial suggestions. Address correspondence to the authors at Department of Psychology/Centre for Research in Human Development, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West (PY-I 70), Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4B 1 R6.

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Stack, D.M., Poulin-Dubois, D. (2002). Socioemotional and Cognitive Competence in Infancy. In: Pushkar, D., Bukowski, W.M., Schwartzman, A.E., Stack, D.M., White, D.R. (eds) Improving Competence across the Lifespan. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47149-3_4

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