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"... the technology of the mirror, perfected and marketed by Venice in the early sixteenth century, first enabled people literally to reflect on a whole picture of themselves. By contrast, before the sixteenth century, blown glassmirrors magnified what was near their surface and this made it difficult for people to see their whole appearance. In all this, there was an enrichment of the sense of self" (Roger Smith, 'Self-Reflection and the Self', in Rewriting the Self: Histories from the Renaissance to the Present, ed. Roy Porter (London, 1997).

Anderson, J. R. 1984. "The development of self-recognition: A review." Developmental Psychobiology 17: 35-49.

Armstrong, Judith. 1994. "Reflections on Multiple Personality Disorder as a Developmentally Complex Adaptation," The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child 49: 349-64.

Bahrick, L. and J. S. Watson. 1985. "Detection of Intermodal Proprioceptive-Visual Contingency as a Potential Basis of Self-Perception in Infancy," Developmental Psychology 21 # 6: 963-973.

Baron-Cohen, S., et al. 1985. "Does the Autistic Child Have a Theory of Mind?," Cognition 21: 37-46.

Baron-Cohen, S. 1989. "The Autistic Child's Theory of Mind: A Case of Specific Developmental Delay," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 30, 285-97.

Barresi, J. 2001. Extending self-consciousness into the future. In C. Moore & K Lemmon (Eds.), The Self in Time: Developmental Perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, (pp. 141-161).

Barresi, John. 1999. "On Becoming a Person," Philosophical Psychology, 12: 79-98.

Beeghly, Marjorie & Cicchetti, Dante (1994). Child maltreatment, attachment, and the self system: Emergence of an internal state lexicon in toddlers at high social risk. Development and Psychopathology 6: 5-30.

Bermúdez, José. 1996. "The Moral Significance of Birth," Ethics: an international journal of social, political and legal philosophy 106 # 2

Bertenthal, B. J. and Fisher, K. W. 1978. "Development of self recognition in the infant." Developmental Psychology 14: 44-50.

Bickard, Mark H. 1992. How does the environment affect the person? In Lucien T. Winegar & Jaan Valsiner (Eds.), Children's development within social contexts: Metatheoretical, theoretical and methodological issues (Vol. 2; pp. 33-52). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Blustein, David L. & Palladino, Donna E. 1991. Self and identity in late adolescence: A theoretical and empirical integration. Journal of Adolescent Research 6: 437-453.

Briskin, A. S. 1974. "A developmental model of self-awareness." Counseling and Values 18: 79-85.

Brown, R., et al. 1997. "Are There "Autistic-like" Features in Congenitally Blind Children?," Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 38: 693-703.

Bruner, J., and C. Feldman. 1993. "Theories of mind and the Problem of Autism," Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Autism, ed. Simon Baron-Cophen, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Donald J. Cohen. (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 267-91.

Budwig, Nancy and Wiley, Angela. 1995. "What Language Reveals About Children's Categories of Personhood," New directions for child development # 69: 21-

Butterworth, George. 1998. "A developmental-ecological perspective on Strawson's 'The Self'." Journal of Consciousness Studies 5 (2): 132-140. Reprinted in Models of the Self, ed. S. Gallagher and J. Shear (pp. 203-211). Exeter: Imprint Academic.

Butterworth, George. 1995. "The self as an object of consciousness in infancy." In P. Rochat (ed). The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research. Elsevier/North Holland

Butterworth, George. 1995. "An Ecological Perspective on the Origin of Self," in The Body and the Self, ed. José Bermúdez, Anthony Marcel, and Naomi Eilan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995: 87-105.

Butterworth, George. 1995. "The Self as an Object of Consciousness in Infancy," in P. Rochat (ed). The Self in Early Infancy: Theory and Research . Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 35-51.

Butterworth, George. 1992. "Origins of Self in Human Infancy," Psychological Inquiry 2 # 3: 103-111, with 10 peer commentaries.

Butterworth, George. 1992. "Self Perception as a Foundation for Self Knowledge," Psychological Inquiry 3 #2:134-136.

Butterworth, George. 1990. "Self-Perception in Infancy," in The Self in Transition, ed. Dante Cicchetti and Marjorie Beeghly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Cicchetti, D. & Beeghly, M. (Eds.) 1991. The self in transition: Infancy to Childhood . Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.

Crosby, John F. 1993. "The Personhood of the Human Embryo," The Journal of medicine and philosophy," 18 # 4: 399-418

Emde, Robert N.; Biringen, Zeynep; Clyman, Robert B. & Oppenheim, David 1991. The moral self of infancy: Affective core and procedural knowledge. Developmental Review 11: 251-270.

Fivush, R. 1994. "Constructing Narrative, Emotion, and Self in Parent-Child Conversations about the Past," in U. Neisser & R. Fivush, eds. The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self Narrative . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., pp. 136-58.

Fogel, Alan. 1995. "Relational Narratives of the Prelinguistic Self," in Philippe Rochat, ed.The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research North-Holland., pp. 117-140.

Fogel, Alan. 1993. Developing through Relationships: Origins of Communication, Self, and Culture. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Press.

Fonagy, Peter; Steele, Miriam; Steele, Howard; Moran, George S. & Higgitt, Anna C. 1991. The capacity for understanding mental states: The reflective self in parent and child and its significance for security of attachment. Infant Mental Health Journal 12: 201-218.

Gallagher, Shaun.1996. "The Moral Significance of Primitive Self-Consciousness: Response to Bermúdez," Ethics: an international journal of social, political and legal philosophy 107, # 1: 129-140.

Gallagher, Shaun and Andrew Meltzoff, 1996. "The Earliest Sense of Self and Others: Merleau-Ponty and Recent Developmental Studies," Philosophical Psychology 9, No. 2: 213-236.

Gallup, Jr., G. G. 1982. "Self awareness and the emergence of mind in primates," American Journal of Primatology 2: 237-248.

Gibson, Eleanor. J. 1993. "Ontogenesis of the Perceived Self," in U. Neisser, ed. The Perceived Self: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources of Self-Knowledge . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., pp. 25-42.

Gibson, Eleanor J., 1995, "Are We Automata," in Philippe Rochat, ed.The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research North-Holland., pp. 3-15.

Gopnik, Alison and Andrew N. Meltzoff. 1993. "Minds, Bodies, and Persons: Young Children's Understanding of the Self and Others as Reflected in Imitation and 'Theory of Mind' Research," in Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Herzog, Elaine P.; Gara, Michael A. & Rosenberg, Seymour 1992. The abused child as parent: Perception of self and other. Infant Mental Health Journal 13: 83-98.

Hobson, R. P. 1990. "On the Origins of Self and the Case of Autism," Development and Psychopathology 2: 163-81.

Hobson, R. P. 1993. "The Emotional Origin of Social Understanding," Philosophical Psychology 6: 227-49.

Kagan, J. 1981. The Second Year: The Emergence of Self-Awareness. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Kenny, Maureen E.; Moilanen, Donna L.; Lomax, Richard; Brabeck, Mary M. 1993. Contributions of parental attachments to view of self and depressive symptoms among early adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence 13: 408-430.

Kroger, J. 1989. Identity in adolescence: The balance between self and other. New York, NY: Routledge.

Lewis, M. 1991. "Ways of knowing: Objective self-awareness or consciousness." Developmental Review 11: 231-43.

Loveland, K. 1993. "Autism, Affordances, and the Self," in U. Neisser, ed. The Perceived Self: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources of Self-Knowledge . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 237-53.

Loveland, K. 1991. "Social Affordances and Interaction: Autism and the Affordances of the Human Environment," Ecological Psychology 3: 99-119.

Loveland, K., et al. 1995. "Intermodal Perception of Affect by Persons with Autism or Down Syndrome," Development and Psychopathology 7: 409-18.

Loveland, K., and B. Tunali. 1993. "Narrative Language in Autism and the Theory of Mind Hypothesis: A Wider Perspective," in Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Autism, ed. Simon Baron-Cophen, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Donald J. Cohen. (Oxford: Oxford University Press): 247-66.

Loveland, K., and B. Tunali-Kotoski, 1997, "The School-aged Child with Autism," in The Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders 2d. ed., D. Cohen & F. Volkmar, (eds): 283-308.

Markova, I. 1990. "The development of self-consciousness: Baldwin, Mead, and Vygotsky." In J. Faulconer & R. Williams (eds) Reconsidering Psychology. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press.

Maxon, Antonia Brancia; Brackett, Diane & van den Berg, Sjef A. (1991). Self perception of socialization: The effects of hearing status, age, and gender. The Volta Review 93: 7-17.

Meltzoff, Andrew. 1992. "Early Imitation within a Functional Framework: The Importance of Person Identity, Movement, and Development," Infant Behavior and Development 15, 479-505.

Meltzoff, Andrew. 1990. "Foundations for developing a concept of self: The role of imitation in relating self to other and the value of social mirroring, social modeling, and self practice in infancy," in The Self in Transition: Infancy to Childhood. D. Cicchetti and M. Beeghly (Eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Meltzoff, Andrew and Alison Gopnik. 1993. "The Role of Imitation in Understanding Persons and Developing a Theory of Mind," in Understanding Other Minds: Perspectives from Autism,, ed. Simon Baron-Cophen, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Donald J. Cohen. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Meltzoff, Andrew and M. Keith Moore. 1995. "Infant's Understanding of People and Things: From Body Imitation to Folk Psychology," in The Body and the Self, ed. José Bermúdez, Anthony Marcel, and Naomi Eilan. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995: 43-69.

Meltzoff, Andrew and M. Keith Moore. 1994. "Imitation, Memory, and the Representation of Persons," Infant Behavior and Development 17: 83-89.

Miller, Peggy J.; Mintz, Judith; Hoogstra, Lisa; Fung, Heidi & Potts, Randolph 1992. The narrated self: Young children's construction of self in relation to others in conversational stories of personal experience. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 38: 45-67.

Moore, D. G., et al. 1997. "Components of Person Perception: An Investigation with Autistic, Non- Autistic Retarded and Typically Developing Children and Adolescents," British Journal of Developmental Psychology 15: 401-23.

Moore, C. and K Lemmon (Eds). 2001. The Self in Time: Developmental Perspectives. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Neisser, Ulric, 1995, "Criteria for an Ecological Self," in Rochat, Phillip (ed). The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research Amsterdam: North-Holland., pp. 17-34.

Neisser, U., Ed. 1993. The Perceived Self: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources of Self-Knowledge. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Neisser, U. 1991. "Two Perceptually Given Aspects of the Self and Their Development," Developmental Review 11: 197-209.

Neisser, U. 1988. "Five Kinds of Self-Knowledge," Philosophical Psychology 1: 35-59.

Parker, S. T. , Mitchell, R. M. , & Boccia, M. L. 1994. Self-Awareness in Animals and Humans: Developmental Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Parnas, J., et al. 1993. "Life-time DSM-IIIR Diagnostic Outcomes in Offspring of Schizophrenic Mothers: The results from the Copenhagen High Risk Study," Archives Gen Psychiat 50: 707-14.

Pipp, Sandra; Easterbrooks, M. Ann & Harmon, Robert J. 1992. The relation between attachment and knowledge of self and mother in one- to three-year-old infants. Child Development 63: 738-750.

Povinelli, D. 1995. "The unduplicated self," in P. Rochat (ed). The Self in Early Infancy: Theory and Research . Amsterdam: Elsevier, pp. 161-192.

Povinelli, D. and Simon, B. B. 1997. "Young children's understanding of briefly versus extremely delayed images of the self: Emergence of an autobiographical stance." Developmental Psychology (in press).

Putnam, Frank W. 1997. Dissociation in Children and Adolescents : A Developmental Approach Guilford Press.

Reed, Edward S., 1995, "Becoming a Self," in Rochat, Phillip (ed). The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research Amsterdam: North-Holland., pp. 431-448.

Reed, E. S. 1994. "Perception is to self as remembering is to selves." In U. Neisser and R. Fivush (eds). The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self Narrative . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 278-298.

Reed, E. S. 1994. "Perception is to self as remembering is to selves." In U. Neisser and R. Fivush (eds). The Remembering Self: Construction and Accuracy in the Self Narrative . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 278-298.

Rochat, Phillip (ed). 1995. The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Rochat, Philippe, 1995, "Early Objectification of the Self," in Rochat, Phillip (ed). The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research Amsterdam: North-Holland., pp. 53-72.

Stern, Daniel N., 1995, "Self/Other Differentiation in the Domain of Intimate Socio-Affective Interaction: Some Considerations," in Rochat, Phillip (ed). The Self in Infancy: Theory and Research Amsterdam: North-Holland., pp. 419-430.

Stern, D. 1993. "The role of feelings for an interpersonal self," in U. Neisser (ed). The Perceived Self: Ecological and Interpersonal Sources of Self Knowledge . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 205-215.

Stern, Daniel N. 1985. The Interpersonal World of the Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology New York: Basic Books.

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