Social development as preference management : how infants, children, and parents get what they want from one another /
Karniol, Rachel,1950-
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The baby 'preference game' -- Children's expression of preferences -- Emerging meta-preferences -- Other people's preferences -- Parenting and preference management -- Channeling children's preferences -- Temporizing preferences -- Restricting children's preferences -- Disciplining noncompliance -- Planes of transformational thought: temporal, imaginal, and mental -- Manipulating others -- Coping and self-regulating -- Mind play: applying transformational thought -- Minding one's own versus others' preferences: altruism, aggression and morality -- Tying up.
Child development.
Preferences (Philosophy)
Sociolinguistics.