...(Bronfenbrenner, 1977). In other words, these laboratory-based studies have led to a psychology which is ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (ibid). Although laboratory-based studies have dominated post-war psychology,...

...procedures. Bronfenbrenner (1977) was prompted to remark: ‘much of contemporary developmental psychology is the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time'. Whereas in the past developmental psychologists tended to model their work...

...Bronfenbrenner's accusation that much of mainstream developmental psychology could be summarized as ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (Bronfenbrenner 1979: 19) heralded a welcome awakening of concern for the...

...Bronfenbrenner' s accusation that much of mainstream developmental psychology could be summarized as ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (Bronfenbrenner, 1979: 19) heralded a welcome awakening of concern for the...

...Bronfehbrenner's accusation that much of mainstream developmental psychology could be summarized as ‘the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, p. 19) heralded a welcome awakening of concern for...

...and at the level of research. In his 1979 book, he famously accused developmental psychology of being 'the science of the strange behaviour of children...strange situations with strange adults for the briefest possible periods of time' (p. 19). Around this time there was a detectable change in the writings and...