William Damon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1604703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Damon |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Damon |
| SIGNATURE | DAMON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 361 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 32 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Purpose development in the context of higher education
Les tactiques spatiales des tribunaux pénaux et les aspects politiques de la technique juridique
Cet article porte sur le recours grandissant aux conditions à caractère spatial ou géographique, telles que des conditions de ne pas se trouver dans certains lieux publics, de respecter un quadrilatère ou un couvre-feu, une interdiction de communiquer ou encore une interdiction de manifester, imposées dans des ordonnances de mise en liberté ou lors de la détermination de la peine dans le cadre de procédures criminelles. Ces conditions ont des con…
Scientific and Ethical Mandates in the Study of Purpose
We appreciate the letter by Hill and Pfund about our commentary and the opportunity to respond to it. It is exactly this type of interchange that advances understanding and clarity of communication in the scholarly community. The object of our commentary (Bronk & Damon, 2021, “What makes a purpose ‘worth having’) was a thoughtful Human Development article by Burrow et al. (2021) entitled “Are all purposes worth having?” It should be clear from th…
What Makes a Purpose “Worth Having”
Purpose and Character Development in Early Adolescence
Youth Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is critical to job creation and economic growth in the United States and abroad; however, interest in pursuing entrepreneurial careers is on the decline among young people today. As a means of designing programs that effectively encourage and prepare young people to pursue entrepreneurial careers, this essay calls for increased focus on how entrepreneurs develop. An understanding of the experiences, opportunities, and interests t…
Civic Purpose
This article introduces civic purpose as a construct for learning about civic development in adolescence. Civic purpose, defined as a sustained intention to contribute to the world beyond the self through civic or political action , integrates the components of motivation, civic activity, and future-oriented civic intention. We present results from a mixed methods longitudinal study that used the civic purpose framework in which 1,578 high school…
Spatial Tactics in Criminal Courts and the Politics of Legal Technicalities
This paper documents court-imposed bail and sentencing conditions with spatial dimensions, such as red zones, no contact conditions, curfews and prohibitions to demonstrate, issued in the context of criminal proceedings. These conditional orders, which are growing in importance and have a significant impact on the lives of marginalized groups of people, have not received the attention they deserve in the literature. As opposed to better publicize…
Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship offers a viable and proven pathway to economic growth and personal fulfillment. However, the number of individuals engaged in entrepreneurial behaviors remains low. This discrepancy between entrepreneurial attitudes and action underscores the need for programs that foster the development of entrepreneurship in today's youth. We argue that a relational developmental systems approach can help researchers understand and facilitate t…
Why a True Account of Human Development Requires Exemplar Research
This chapter uses moral psychology to illustrate why exemplar methods are essential for building a valid, complete understanding of key domains of human development. Social psychological, economic, and biological-evolutionary paradigms for studying morality rely on samples drawn from the general population. This research reveals a bleak picture of morality, highlighting its irrational, self-interested, externally controlled aspects. If the subjec…
Entrepreneurship in Adolescence
Will significant numbers of today's youth become able to succeed in careers that require entrepreneurial capacities? Who among today's youth will have the talent, skills, knowledge, and drive needed to become successful entrepreneurs? To answer these questions, it will be necessary understand the developmental bases of individual and ecological variables linked to successful entrepreneurship and their interrelations over the course of the first d…
Introduction to the Special Issue on American Identity
1The preparation of this issue, and the conference on which the issue is based, was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The editors gratefully acknowledge Dr. Jack Templeton fo
Contents, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1997
The Handbook’s Back Pages – and Ours
The long and distinguished history of the HandbookofChildPsychology is reviewed, from its origin in a little known 1931 edition by Carl Murchison to its later incarnations as Leonard Carmichael’s Manual and Paul Mussen’s Handbook. Continuing themes in the field of human development since the Handbook’s initial edition are identified, along with alterations in theoretical orientation that have accompanied major new empirical findings. At the close…
Commentary
Commentaries| January 20 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health William Damon William Damon Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1994) 37 (3): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.1159/000278250 Article history Published Online: January 20 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vide…
Why Study Social-Cognitive Development
Research Articles| December 23 2009 Why Study Social-Cognitive Development? Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health William Damon William Damon Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1979) 22 (3): 206–211. https://doi.org/10.1159/000272441 Article history Published Online: December 23 2009 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article…
Handbook of Child Psychology
Griffith Health, School of Applied Psychology
Dispositions and Teacher Assessment
This article discusses the use of dispositions as a basis for evaluating candidates for teaching credentials. It begins with the assumption that any evaluation process must rely on clearly defined constructs that cannot be interpreted in open-ended ways to suit the subjective biases of the evaluator. It then argues that present uses of the disposition construct in teacher education risk this kind of biased application. It makes the point that fai…
Handbook of child psychology
Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 4: Child Psychology in Practice, edited by…
Looking back, for a change
Over the past quarter century, the study of child and adolescent development has made important progress by using its theoretical insights to address the common problems of growing up. In light of findings generated by this empirical activity, it is now time to take a new look at the field's theoretical base to establish a comprehensive framework for understanding all the processes implicated in children's development, from the neural to the cult…
Passion & mastery in balance
Whether or not people belong to a true 'profession' as sociologists de1⁄2ne the term, they usually consider profes-sionalism to be a quality worth striving for.To call someone a pro implies that the person knows what to do and does it well.Professionals don't act naively, make stupid mistakes, or get easily flustered.Professionals have staying power and can be counted on: they 'go on with the show' no matter how they're feeling.It is this attitud…
What is Positive Youth Development
This article explores the recent approach to youth research and practice that has been called positive youth development. The author makes the case that the approach grew out of dissatisfaction with a predominant view that underestimated the true capacities of young people by focusing on their deficits rather than their developmental potentials. The article examines three areas of research that have been transformed by the positive youth approach…
The Development of Purpose During Adolescence
The field of psychology has been slow to recognize the importance of purpose for positive youth development. Until recently, purpose was understood, if at all, as a means of adapting to threatening conditions rather than as a motivator of good deeds and galvanizer of character growth. Moreover, in most psychological studies, purpose has been conflated with personal meaning, a broader and more internally oriented construct. This article offers a n…
The Role of Family Literacy Environments in Promoting Young Children's Emerging Literacy Skills
EDITORS' NOTES (Pia Rebello Britto, Jeanne Brooks--Gunn). 1. Emergent Literacy Is Emerging Knowledge of Written, Not Oral, Language (Victoria Purcell--Gates). Children's knowledge of the development of written, as opposed to oral, language is central to the concept of emergent literacy. 2. Parent--Child Interaction in Three Conversational Contexts: Variations in Style and Strategy (Catherine Crain--Thoreson, Michael P. Dahlin, Terris A. Powell). …
The Role of Friendship in Psychological Adjustment
1. Children's Friendship Experiences and Psychological Adjustment: Theory and Research Cynthia A. Erdley, Douglas W. Nangle, Julie E. Newman, Erika M. Carpenter 2. Friendship and Peer Rejection as Predictors of Adult Adjustment Catherine L. Bagwell, Michelle E. Schmidt, Andrew F. Newcomb, William M. Bukowski 3. Children with Attention--Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Peer Relationships and Peer--Oriented Interventions Sylvie Mrug, Betsy Hoza, Aly…
What is Positive Youth Development
This article explores the recent approach to youth research and practice that has been called positive youth development. The author makes the case that the approach grew out of dissatisfaction with a predominant view that underestimated the true capacities of young people by focusing on their deficits rather than their developmental potentials. The article examines three areas of research that have been transformed by the positive youth approach…
The Development of Purpose During Adolescence
The field of psychology has been slow to recognize the importance of purpose for positive youth development. Until recently, purpose was understood, if at all, as a means of adapting to threatening conditions rather than as a motivator of good deeds and galvanizer of character growth. Moreover, in most psychological studies, purpose has been conflated with personal meaning, a broader and more internally oriented construct. This article offers a n…
Peer education
Spatial Tactics in Criminal Courts and the Politics of Legal Technicalities
This paper documents court-imposed bail and sentencing conditions with spatial dimensions, such as red zones, no contact conditions, curfews and prohibitions to demonstrate, issued in the context of criminal proceedings. These conditional orders, which are growing in importance and have a significant impact on the lives of marginalized groups of people, have not received the attention they deserve in the literature. As opposed to better publicize…
Dispositions and Teacher Assessment
This article discusses the use of dispositions as a basis for evaluating candidates for teaching credentials. It begins with the assumption that any evaluation process must rely on clearly defined constructs that cannot be interpreted in open-ended ways to suit the subjective biases of the evaluator. It then argues that present uses of the disposition construct in teacher education risk this kind of biased application. It makes the point that fai…
Purpose and Character Development in Early Adolescence
The Development of Self-Understanding in Puerto Rico and the United States
A model of self-understanding development with four developmental levels is presented. The model allows for individual and cultural differences in the degree to which self-understanding at each of four developmental levels is focused on the physical, active, social, or psychological qualities of self. The value of the model for describing and contrasting development in different cultures was investigated by examining the self-understanding of two…
Measurement and Social Development
Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship offers a viable and proven pathway to economic growth and personal fulfillment. However, the number of individuals engaged in entrepreneurial behaviors remains low. This discrepancy between entrepreneurial attitudes and action underscores the need for programs that foster the development of entrepreneurship in today's youth. We argue that a relational developmental systems approach can help researchers understand and facilitate t…
Passion & mastery in balance
Whether or not people belong to a true 'profession' as sociologists de1⁄2ne the term, they usually consider profes-sionalism to be a quality worth striving for.To call someone a pro implies that the person knows what to do and does it well.Professionals don't act naively, make stupid mistakes, or get easily flustered.Professionals have staying power and can be counted on: they 'go on with the show' no matter how they're feeling.It is this attitud…
Political Development for a Democratic Future
Measurement and Social Development
Moral understanding and children's conduct
Different types of moral and nonmoral knowledge interact to shape both moral judgment and conduct
The Development of Justice and Self-Interest during Childhood
The Development of Self-Understanding from Infancy Through Adolescence
DAMON, WILLIAM, and HART, DANIEL. The Development of Self-Understanding from Infancy through Adolescence. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1982, 53, 841-864. This review focuses on selfunderstanding, the cognitive basis for self-conception. Its purpose is to construct from the psychological literature a descriptive account of self-understanding development between infancy and adolescence. The paper begins by distinguishing self-understanding from other aspects…
Peer education
The Development of Self-Understanding in Puerto Rico and the United States
A model of self-understanding development with four developmental levels is presented. The model allows for individual and cultural differences in the degree to which self-understanding at each of four developmental levels is focused on the physical, active, social, or psychological qualities of self. The value of the model for describing and contrasting development in different cultures was investigated by examining the self-understanding of two…
Critical distinctions among three approaches to peer education
Political Development for a Democratic Future
The Role of Family Literacy Environments in Promoting Young Children's Emerging Literacy Skills
EDITORS' NOTES (Pia Rebello Britto, Jeanne Brooks--Gunn). 1. Emergent Literacy Is Emerging Knowledge of Written, Not Oral, Language (Victoria Purcell--Gates). Children's knowledge of the development of written, as opposed to oral, language is central to the concept of emergent literacy. 2. Parent--Child Interaction in Three Conversational Contexts: Variations in Style and Strategy (Catherine Crain--Thoreson, Michael P. Dahlin, Terris A. Powell). …
The Role of Friendship in Psychological Adjustment
1. Children's Friendship Experiences and Psychological Adjustment: Theory and Research Cynthia A. Erdley, Douglas W. Nangle, Julie E. Newman, Erika M. Carpenter 2. Friendship and Peer Rejection as Predictors of Adult Adjustment Catherine L. Bagwell, Michelle E. Schmidt, Andrew F. Newcomb, William M. Bukowski 3. Children with Attention--Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Peer Relationships and Peer--Oriented Interventions Sylvie Mrug, Betsy Hoza, Aly…
The Development of Purpose During Adolescence
The field of psychology has been slow to recognize the importance of purpose for positive youth development. Until recently, purpose was understood, if at all, as a means of adapting to threatening conditions rather than as a motivator of good deeds and galvanizer of character growth. Moreover, in most psychological studies, purpose has been conflated with personal meaning, a broader and more internally oriented construct. This article offers a n…
What is Positive Youth Development
This article explores the recent approach to youth research and practice that has been called positive youth development. The author makes the case that the approach grew out of dissatisfaction with a predominant view that underestimated the true capacities of young people by focusing on their deficits rather than their developmental potentials. The article examines three areas of research that have been transformed by the positive youth approach…
Looking back, for a change
Over the past quarter century, the study of child and adolescent development has made important progress by using its theoretical insights to address the common problems of growing up. In light of findings generated by this empirical activity, it is now time to take a new look at the field's theoretical base to establish a comprehensive framework for understanding all the processes implicated in children's development, from the neural to the cult…
Passion & mastery in balance
Whether or not people belong to a true 'profession' as sociologists de1⁄2ne the term, they usually consider profes-sionalism to be a quality worth striving for.To call someone a pro implies that the person knows what to do and does it well.Professionals don't act naively, make stupid mistakes, or get easily flustered.Professionals have staying power and can be counted on: they 'go on with the show' no matter how they're feeling.It is this attitud…
Handbook of child psychology
Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are compared. Updated and revised to reflect the new developments in the field, the Handbook of Child Psychology, Sixth Edition contains new chapters on such topics as spirituality, social understanding, and non-verbal communication. Volume 4: Child Psychology in Practice, edited by…
Handbook of Child Psychology
Griffith Health, School of Applied Psychology
Dispositions and Teacher Assessment
This article discusses the use of dispositions as a basis for evaluating candidates for teaching credentials. It begins with the assumption that any evaluation process must rely on clearly defined constructs that cannot be interpreted in open-ended ways to suit the subjective biases of the evaluator. It then argues that present uses of the disposition construct in teacher education risk this kind of biased application. It makes the point that fai…
Why Study Social-Cognitive Development
Research Articles| December 23 2009 Why Study Social-Cognitive Development? Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health William Damon William Damon Clark University, Worcester, Mass. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1979) 22 (3): 206–211. https://doi.org/10.1159/000272441 Article history Published Online: December 23 2009 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article…
Contents, Vol. 40, No. 2, 1997
The Handbook’s Back Pages – and Ours
The long and distinguished history of the HandbookofChildPsychology is reviewed, from its origin in a little known 1931 edition by Carl Murchison to its later incarnations as Leonard Carmichael’s Manual and Paul Mussen’s Handbook. Continuing themes in the field of human development since the Handbook’s initial edition are identified, along with alterations in theoretical orientation that have accompanied major new empirical findings. At the close…
Commentary
Commentaries| January 20 2010 Commentary Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Children's Health William Damon William Damon Brown University, Providence, R.I., USA Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Human Development (1994) 37 (3): 140–142. https://doi.org/10.1159/000278250 Article history Published Online: January 20 2010 Content Tools Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Vide…
Introduction to the Special Issue on American Identity
1The preparation of this issue, and the conference on which the issue is based, was supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. The editors gratefully acknowledge Dr. Jack Templeton fo
Entrepreneurship in Adolescence
Will significant numbers of today's youth become able to succeed in careers that require entrepreneurial capacities? Who among today's youth will have the talent, skills, knowledge, and drive needed to become successful entrepreneurs? To answer these questions, it will be necessary understand the developmental bases of individual and ecological variables linked to successful entrepreneurship and their interrelations over the course of the first d…
Why a True Account of Human Development Requires Exemplar Research
This chapter uses moral psychology to illustrate why exemplar methods are essential for building a valid, complete understanding of key domains of human development. Social psychological, economic, and biological-evolutionary paradigms for studying morality rely on samples drawn from the general population. This research reveals a bleak picture of morality, highlighting its irrational, self-interested, externally controlled aspects. If the subjec…
Fostering Youth Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship offers a viable and proven pathway to economic growth and personal fulfillment. However, the number of individuals engaged in entrepreneurial behaviors remains low. This discrepancy between entrepreneurial attitudes and action underscores the need for programs that foster the development of entrepreneurship in today's youth. We argue that a relational developmental systems approach can help researchers understand and facilitate t…
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