Individual differences in infancy

This edited collection gathers chapters from established researchers who present experimental studies showing that early life shapes how people develop across their whole lifespan. A separate opening section offers broader frameworks for understanding why infants differ from one another. Its contributions cover dynamical systems theory as a way to describe individual variation, the design logic of behavioral genetic studies and how they separate out genetic influences, and the basic statistical methods used to analyze individual differences, with particular attention to cluster analysis.