Willis F. Overton , Ph.D.

 

Representative Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Lerner, R. M. & Overton, W.F. (2008). Exemplifying the integrations of the relational developmental system: Synthesizing theory, research, and application to promote positive development and social justice. Journal of Adolescent Research, 23, 245-255. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (2007). A Coherent Metatheory for Dynamic Systems: Relational Organicism-Contextualism. Human Development, 50, 154-159. (PDF)

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. (2007). Embodiment from a Relational Perspective. In W. F. Overton, U. Mueller & J. L. Newman (Eds.), (pp. 1-18). Developmental Perspective on Embodiment and Consciousness. Hillsdale, NJ: Erbaum Associates. (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. F. (2004).  Embodied development: Ending the nativism-empiricism debate.  In C. Garcia Coll, E. Bearer, and R. Lerner (Eds.).  Nature and Nurture: The Complex Interplay of Genetic and Environmental Influences on Human Behavior and Development, (pp. 201-223). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.(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. (1998). Relational-developmental theory: A psychological perspective. In D. Gorlitz, H. J. Harloff, G. Mey, J. Valsiner (Eds.) Children, Cities, and psychological theories: Developing relationships, (pp. 315-335). Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1997).  Beyond dichotomy: An embodied active agent for cultural Psychology.  Culture and Psychology, 3 , 315-334. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1994). Contexts of meaning: The computational and the embodied mind. In W. F. Overton & D. S. Palermo (Eds.) The nature and ontogenesis of meaning. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates, pp. 1-18. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1994). The arrow of time and cycles of time: Concepts of change, cognition, and embodiment. Psychological Inquiry, 5, 215-237. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1994). Interpretationism, pragmatism, realism, and other ideologies. Psychological Inquiry, 5, 260-271. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. & Horowitz, H. (1991).  Developmental psychopathology: Differentiations and integrations. In D. Cicchetti and S. Toth (Eds.), Rochester Symposium on developmental psychopathology, Vol. 3, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, pp. 1-42.  (PDF)

Overton, W.F. (1991). Historical and contemporary perspectives on developmental theory and research strategies. In R. Downs, L. Liben and D. Palermo (Eds.). Visions of aesthetics, the environment, and development: The legacy of Joachim Wohlwill. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 263-311. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1991). The structure of developmental theory. In H. W. Reese (Ed.) Advances in child development and behavior, Vol. 23. New York: Academic Press, 1-37. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1991). Metaphor, recursive systems and paradox in science and developmental theory. In H. W. Reese (Ed.) Advances in child development and behavior, Vol. 23. New York: Academic Press, 59-71. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1991). Historical and contemporary perspectives on developmental theory and research strategies. In R. Downs, L. Liben and D. Palermo (Eds.). Visions of aesthetics, the environment, and development. The legacy of Joachim Wohlwill. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 263-311. (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)

Overton, W. F., & Reese, H. W. (1981). Conceptual prerequisites for an understanding of stability-change and continuity-discontinuity. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 4, 99-123. (PDF)

Overton, W. F., (1975). General systems, structure and development. In K. Riegel and G. Rosenwald (Eds.), Structure and transformation: Developmental aspects. New York: Wiley Interscience, pp. 61-81. (PDF)

Overton, W. F. (1973). On the assumptive base of the nature-nurture controversy: Additive versus interactive conceptions. Human Development, 16, 74-89. (PDF)

Overton, W. F., & Reese, H. W. (1973). Models of development: Methodological implications. In J.R. Nesselroade and H.W. Reese (Eds.), Life-span developmental psychology: Methodological issues (pp 65-86). New York: Academic Press. (PDF)

Reese, H. W., & Overton, W. F. (1970). Models of development and theories of development. In L.R. Goulet and P.B. Baltes (Eds.), Life-span developmental psychology: Research and theory, (pp. 115-145). New York: Academic Press. (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)