About the book - About the Authors

STEPHANIE THORNTON, formerly Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sussex, UK, has researched and taught developmental psychology for over twenty-five years. Her research has covered a broad range of topics on social and cognitive development with a particular focus on the processes through which new ideas and new understanding develop. She is the author of Children Solving Problems (Harvard 1995) and Growing Minds (Palgrave 2002).