Developmental theorists have struggled with defining the relations among biology, psychology, and sociocultural context, often reducing psychological functions of a person to either biological functioning or the role of sociocultural context - nature or nurture - and considering each area of human development separately. New Perspectives on Human Development addresses fundamental questions of development with a unified approach. It encompasses theory and research on cognitive, social and moral, and language and communicative development, in various stages of life, and explores interdisciplinary perspectives. New Perspectives on Human Development revisits old questions and applies original empirical findings, offering new directions for future research in the field.

Nancy Budwig is a professor in the Hiatt School of Psychology at Clark University, Massachusetts. She is an associate editor of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Elliot Turiel is a professor in education at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Jerome A. Hutto Chair in Education. Philip David Zelazo is currently the Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professor at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota. He is the recipient of a Boyd McCandless Young Scientist Award from the American Psychological Association and a Canada's Top 40 Under 40 Award.