Michael E. Lamb is Professor and Head of the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Dr. Lamb received the Association for Psychological Science's James McKeen Cattell Award for Lifetime Contributions to Applied Psychological Research. He is the co-author of Development in Infancy, Socialization and Personality Development, Infant-Mother Attachment, Child Psychology Today, Investigative Interviews of Children, and Tell Me What Happened: Structured Investigative Interviews of Child Victims and Witnesses. In addition, he has edited many books including The Role of the Father in Child Development and he founded and co-edited Advances in Developmental Psychology.

Marc H. Bornstein is Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice and Senior Investigator and Head of Child and Family Research at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Bornstein was a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received awards from the National Institutes of Health, American Psychological Association, the American Mensa Education and Research Foundation, and the Society for Research in Child Development, to name a few. Dr. Bornstein is coauthor of Development in Infancy, Development: Infancy through Adolescence, and Lifespan Development and general editor of The Crosscurrents in Contemporary Psychology Series and the Monographs in Parenting Series. He has also edited the Handbook of Parenting and the Handbook of Cultural Developmental Science　as well as numerous other volumes.

M. E. Lamb, M. H. Bornstein, Social and Personality Development: Introduction and Overview. Part I: Foundations of Developmental Science R. M. Lerner, S. Lewin-Bizan, A. E. Alberts Warren, Concepts and Theories of Human Development. M. Cole, M. Packer, Culture in Development. D. P. Hartmann, K. E. Pelzel, C. B. Abbott, Design, Measurement, and Analysis in Developmental Research. Part II: Personality and Individual Development in Social Context R. A. Thompson, A. C. Winer, R. Goodvin, The Individual Child: Temperament, Emotion, Self, and Personality. M. E. Lamb, C. Lewis, The Role of Parent-Child Relationships in Child Development. K. H. Rubin, R. Coplan, X. Chen, J. Bowker, K. L. McDonald, Peer Relationships in Childhood. J. S. Eccles, R. W. Roeser, School and Community Influences on Human Development. L. C. Malloy, M. E. Lamb, C. Katz, Children and the Law: Examples of Applied Developmental Psychology in Action.