Merrill-Palmer Quarterly

Editor

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

Associate Editors

William Arsenio
Department of Psychology
Yeshiva University

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

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

Lara Mayeux
University of Oklahoma

Carol McDonald Connor
Florida State University

Amanda Rose
University of Missouri-Columbia

Hildy Ross
University of Waterloo

Jon R. Starr
Harvard University

Steven Thoma
University of Alabama

Georgene L. Troseth
Vanderbilt University

Lynne Zarbatany
University of Western Ontario