Introduction / Jerome Brunner and Helen Haste -- Understanding feelings: the early stages / Judy Dunn -- Taking roles / Paul Light -- Some benefits of egocentrism / George Butterworth -- The transactional self / Jerome Bruner -- The origins of inference / Margaret Donaldson -- The early emergence of planning skills in children / Judy S. Deloache and Ann L. Brown -- Thought from language: the linguistic construction of cognitive representations / Carol Fleisher Feldman -- Social representations of gender / Barbara Lloyd -- Growing into rules / Helen Haste.