Each episode of Child of Our Time is based on the very latest research into child development. These are the references for research drawn upon during the making of the four 2006 programmes:

• Right and wrong
• Flesh and blood
• Happiness
• Learning

Right and wrong
Brandt, R.M. and Rozin, P. (eds) (1997) Morality and Health, London, Routledge.

Broomfield, K.A., Robinson, E.J. and Robinson, W.P. (2002) ‘Children’s understanding of white lies’, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 20, pp. 47-65.

Coles, R. (1997) The Moral Intelligence of Children, New York, Random House.

Damon, W. (1999) ‘The moral development of children’, Scientific American, vol. 281, pp. 72-8.

Dunn, J., Brown, J.R. and Maguire, M. (1995) ‘The development of children's moral sensibility: individual differences and emotion understanding’, Developmental Psychology, vol. 31, pp. 649-659.

Eisenberg, N. (1992) The Caring Child, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.

Eisenberg, N. (ed.) (1989) The Development of Pro-social Behaviour, New York, Academic Press.

Gilligan, C. (1977) In a Different Voice: Psychological theory and women’s development, Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press

Kagan, J. and Lamb, S. (eds) (1987) The Emergence of Morality in Young Children, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Killen, M. and Hart, D. (eds) (1999) Morality in Everyday Life, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

Kohlberg, L. (1981) The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral stages and the idea of justice: Essays on moral development, San Francisco, CA, Harper and Row.

Korba, M. (2001) Building Moral Intelligence, Jossey-Bass.

Kurtines, W.M. and Gerwitz. J. (1991) Handbook of Moral Development (2005 edition), Hillsdale, NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lapsley, D.K. (1996) Moral Psychology, Boulder, Colorado, Westview Presss.

McNaughton, S. and Leyland, J. (1990) ‘Maternal regulation of children’s problem solving behaviour and its impact on children’s performance’, Child Development, vol. 61, pp. 113-126.

Ridley, M. (1966) The Origins of Virtue: Human instincts and the evolution of cooperation, London, Penguin Press.

Squire, S. and Bryant, P. (2002) ‘The influence of sharing on children’s initial concept of division’, Journal of Experimental Psychology, vol. 81, pp. 1-43.

Wright, R. (1994) The Moral Animal: The new science of evolutionary psychology, New York, Pantheon Books.

Flesh and blood
Bank, S. and Kahn, M. (1982) The Sibling Bond, New York: Basic Books.

Boyle, M.H., Jenkins, J.M., Georgiades, K., Cairney, J., Duku, E. and Racine, Y. (2004) ‘Differential-maternal parenting behaviour: estimating within- and between-family effects on children’, Child Development, vol. 75, pp. 1457-1476.

Cicirelli, V. G. (1995) ‘Strengthening sibling relationships in the later years’, in Gregory C. Smith (ed.), Strengthening Aging Families: Diversity in Practice and Policy, Newbury Park, CA, Sage.

Cicirelli, V.G. (1994) ‘The longest bond: the sibling life cycle’, in Luciano L’Abate (ed.), Handbook of Developmental Family Psychology and Psychopathology, New York, Wiley.

Edwards, R., Hadfield, L., Lucey, H. and Mauthner, M. (2005) Who is a Sister and a Brother? Biological and Social Ties, London, South Bank University.

Khan, R. and Cooke, D. J. (2004) ‘The experience of inter-sibling violence (ISV) in a sample of 11-to-19-year-old youths’, in R. A. Gonçalves, R. Roesch, C. Machado, C. Soeiro and F. Winkel, (eds), Victims and Offenders, Chapters in Psychology and Law, pp. 155-160, Brussels, Politeia

Koeppen-Schomerus, G., Spinath F.M. and Plomin, R. (2003) ‘Twins and non-twin siblings: different estimates of shared environmental influence in early childhood’, Twin Research, vol. 6, pp. 97-105

McNicholas, J. and Collis, G.M. (2001) ‘Children's representations of pets in their social networks’, Child: Care, Health and Development, vol. 27, pp. 279-94.

Sanders, R. (2004) Sibling Relationships: Theory and Issues for Practice, London, Palgrave Macmillan.

Steelman, L.C., Powell, B., Werum, R. and Carter, S. (2002) ‘Reconsidering the effects of sibling configuration: recent advances and challenges’, Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 28, pp. 243-269.

Stewart, E.A. (2000) ‘Towards the social analysis of twinship’, British Journal of Sociology, vol. 51, pp. 719-737.

Sulloway, F. (1996) Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics and Creative Lives, New York, Pantheon.

Happiness
Coan, J.A. and Allen, John J.B. (2004) ‘Frontal EEG asymmetry as a moderator and mediator of emotion’, Biological Psychology, vol. 67, pp. 7-49.

Conner, T., Barrett, L.F., Bliss-Moreau, E., Lebo, K. and Kashub, C. (2003) ‘A practical guide to experience-sampling procedures’, Journal of Happiness Studies, vol. 4, pp. 53-78.

Cutting, A.L. and Dunn, J. (2002) ‘The cost of understanding other people: social cognition predicts young children’s sensitivity to criticism’, Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatryy, vol. 43, pp. 849-860.

Davidson, R.J. (2004) ‘Well being and affective style: neural substrates and biobehavioural correlates’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 359, pp.1395-1411.

Kasser, T. (in press) ‘Psychometric development of brief measures of frugality, generosity, and materialism for use in children and adolescents’, in, K. Moore and L. Lippman (eds) Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development: What do children need to flourish? , New York, Kluwer/Plenum.

Pfiefer, M., Goldsmith, H.H., Davidson, R.J. and Rickman, M. (2002) ‘Continuity and change in inhibited and uninhibited children’, Child Development, vol. 73, pp. 1474-1485.

Learning
Deci, E.L., Koestner, R., and Ryan, R.M. (1999) ‘A meta-analytic review of experiments examining the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation’, Psychological Bulletin, vol. 125, pp. 627-668.

Gardiner, H. (1985) Frames of Mind: the theory of multiple intelligences, New York, Basic Books.

Lepper, M.R., Greene, D., and Nisbett, R. E. (1973) ‘Undermining children’s intrinsic interest with extrinsic reward: A test of the "overjustification" hypothesis’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 28, pp. 129-137.

Ryan, R.M., Mims, V., and Koestner, R. (1983) ‘Relation of reward contingency and interpersonal context to intrinsic motivation: a review and test using cognitive evaluation theory’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 45, pp. 736-750.

Skinner, B.F. (1938) The Behaviour of Organisms, New York, Appleton Century Crofts.

Goleman, D. (1996) Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ, Bloomsbury paperbacks.

Seligman, M. (1998) Learned Optimism: The skill to conquer life’s obstacles, New York, Basic Books.