Towards Complementarity: Specificity and Commonality in Social-Emotional Development
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2021-10
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Malti, Tina; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Towards Complementarity: Specificity and Commonality in Social-Emotional Development; Child Development, 2021;
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What are the roles of specificity and commonality in social-emotional development? We begin
by highlighting the conceptual context for this timely and timeless question and explain how
responses to it can inform novel lines of theoretical and empirical inquiry, as well as
sociocultural generalizability. Next, we describe how the selection of papers included in this
special section contribute to our understanding of specificity and commonality in socialemotional development. We then explain how applying the complementarity principle to socialemotional development can inform a future research agenda in this domain. Lastly, we discuss
how specificity and commonality fundamentally impact the way we conceptualize and
implement interventions aimed at nurturing social-emotional development in every child.