Producing Child of Our Time involves drawing on a large range of academic surveys and studies. Here are some of the key references used in the making of the 2007 series.

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Hughes, C., Cutting, A. & Dunn, J. (2001) Acting Nasty in the Face of Failure: Longitudinal observations of ‘hard to manage’ children playing a rigged competitive game with friend, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, vol. 29, pp. 403-416.

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Sharon, T. & Woolley, J. D. (2004) Do monsters dream? Young children’s understanding of the fantasy/reality distinction, British Journal of Developmental Psychology, vol. 22, pp. 293–310.

Torrance, E. P. (1966) Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (manual), Princeton: Personnel Press.

Turner-Cobb, J.M. (2005) Psychological and stress hormone correlates in early life: a key to HPA-axis dysregulation and normalization, Stress: The International Journal of the Biology of Stress, vol. 8, pp. 47-57.

Zeltzer, L.K., Fanurik, D. & LeBaron, S. (1989) The cold pressor pain paradigm in children: Feasibility of an intervention model (part II), Pain, vol. 37, pp. 305-313.