Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Editor

Gary W. Ladd, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Associate Editors

Marion K. Underwood, Department of Psychology, University of Texas, Dallas, Richardson, Texas
David H. Uttal, Department of Psychology and School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Lawrence J. Walker, Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

Editorial Assistant

Susan D. Treichler

Manuscript Editor

Yvonne Ramsey

Editorial Board

William Arsenio, Yeshiva University
Steven R. Asher, Duke University
Margarita Azmitia, University of California at Santa Cruz
Joyce Benenson, Emmanuel College, Boston
Antonius Cillessen, University of Connecticut
Daniel Hart, Rutgers University
Catherine A. Haden, Loyola University Chicago
Ernest V. E. Hodges, St. Johns University
Julie Hubbard, University of Delaware
Shelley Hymel, University of British Columbia
Melanie Killen, University of Maryland
Brett Laursen, Florida Atlantic University
Eleanor Maccoby, Stanford University
Carol McDonald Connor, Florida State University
Amanda Rose, University of Missouri-Columbia
Hildy Ross, University of Waterloo
Karen Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jon R. Star, Harvard University
Steven Thoma, University of Alabama
Georgene L. Troseth, Vanderbilt University
Lynne Zarbatany, University of Western Ontario