ABSTRACT
For many years, social and developmental psychologists have overlapped considerably in their foci of interest. For example, issues such as attributional processes, modeling, aggression, self-conceptions, prosocial behavior, and gender roles have been major areas of study in both subdisciplines for numerous decades. For decades, some investigators have tried to highlight this overlap between social and developmental psychology in books that include content from both areas (e.g., Brehm, Kassin, & Gibbons, 1981; Eisenberg, 1995; Higgins, Ruble, & Hartup, 1983). Nonetheless, the vast majority of developmental psychologists know relatively little about social psychological theory and research and vice versa.
