Representative Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
Overton, W. F. & Dick, A. S. (2007). A Competence-Procedural and Developmental Approach to Logical Reasoning. In Maxwell. J. Roberts (Ed.), Integrating the mind (pp 332-366). Hove , UK : Psychology Press. (PDF)
Overton, W. F. (2006). Developmental psychology: Philosophy, concepts, methodology. In R. M. Lerner (Ed.) Theoretical models of human development. Volume 1 of the Handbook of child psychology (pp. 18-88). (6th ed.), Editor-in-Chief: William Damon; Richard M. Lerner. New York: Wiley. (PDF)
Overton, W. F. & Ennis, M. (2006). Relationism, ontology and other concerns. Human Development, 49, 180-183. (PDF)
Overton, W. F. & Ennis, M. (2006). Cognitive-Developmental and Behavior-Analytic Theories: Evolving into Complementarity. Human Development, 49, 143-172. (PDF)
Muller,
U.,
Dick,
A.S.,
Gela,
K.,
Overton,
W.F.,Zelazo,
P.D.
(2006).
The
role
of
negative
priming
in
preschoolers'
flexible
rule
use
on
the
dimensional
change
card sort
task. Child
Development,
77 (2),
395-412. (PDF)
Dick, A. S., Overton, W. F., & Kovacs, S. L. (2005). The development of symbolic coordination: Representation of imagined objects, executive function, and theory of mind. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6 , 133-161. (PDF)
Overton, W. (2003). Metatheoretical features of behavior genetics and development. Human Development, 46(6), 356-361. (PDF)
Chapell, M.S., & Overton, W. F. (2002). Development of logical reasoning and the school performance of African American adolescents in relation to socioeconomic status, ethnic identity, and self-esteem. Journal of Black Psychology, 28 , 295-317. (PDF)
Overton,
W.
F.
(2002).
Understanding,
Explanation,
and
Reductionism:
Finding
a
Cure
for
Cartesian
Anxiety.
In
L.
Smith,
and
T.
Brown,
(Eds.)
Reductionism,
(pp.
29-51).
Mahwah,
NJ:
Lawrence
Erlbaum
Associates.(PDF)
Muller, U., Sokol, B., & Overton, W. F. (1999) Developmental sequences in class reasoning and propositional reasoning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychologys, 74 , 69-106. (PDF)
Muller, U., Sokol, B., & Overton, W. F. (1998a). Reframing a constructivist model of the development of mental representation. Developmental Review, 18 , 155-201. (PDF)
Muller, U., Sokol, B., & Overton, W. F. (1998b).Constructivism and development: Reply to Smith's commentary. Developmental Review, 18 , 228-236. (PDF)
Mueller, U., & Overton, W. F. (1998). How to grow a baby. A re-evaluation of image-schema and Piagetian action approaches to representation. Human Development, 41, 71-111. (PDF)
Overton, W. F. (1997). Beyond dichotomy: An embodied active agent for cultural Psychology. Culture and Psychology, 3, 315-334. (PDF)
Ward, S. L., & Overton, W. F. (1990). Semantic familiarity, relevance, and the development of deductive reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 26 , 488-493. (PDF)
Ward, S. L., Byrnes, J. P., & Overton, W. F. (1990). Organization of knowledge and conditional reasoning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 82 , 832-837. (PDF)
Overton, W. F., Ward, S. L., Noveck, I. A., Black, J., & O'Brien, D. P. (1987). Form and content in the development of deductive reasoning. Developmental Psychology, 23 , 22-30. (PDF)
Overton, W. F., Byrnes, J. P., & O'Brien, D. P. (1985). Developmental and individual differences in conditional reasoning: The role of contradiction training and cognitive style. Developmental Psychology, 21 , 692-701. (PDF)
Overton, W. F. (1984). World views and their influence on psychological theory and research: Kuhn--Lakatos--Laudan. In H.W. Reese (Ed.), Advances in child development and behavior. Vol 18. New York: Academic Press, pp. 191-226. (PDF)
Posters
Dick, A.S., Müller, U., Overton, W.F. (October, 2003). Further support for negative priming in the Dimensional Change Card Sort . Poster presented at the meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, UT. (PDF)
Dick, A.S., Overton, W.F., & Kovacs, S. L. (April, 2003). Using representations: Children's coordination of symbols in theory of mind, executive function, and representation of imagined objects . Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL. (PDF)
