For a complete list of my publications, see my curriculum vitae. Full-text versions of several of these publications are available through my Psychology Department webpage.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1991). Constructive play: A window into the mind of the preschooler. In B. Scales, M. Almy, A. Nicolopoulou, & S. Ervin Tripp (Eds.), Play and the Social Context of Development in Early Care and Education. New York: Teachers College Press.

Nicolopoulou, A., & Cole, M. (1993). The generation and transmission of shared knowledge in the culture of collaborative learning: The Fifth Dimension, its play world, and its institutional contexts. In E. A. Forman, N. Minick, & C. A. Stone (Eds.), Contexts for Learning: Sociocultural Dynamics in Children's Development (pp. 283-314). New York: Oxford University Press.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1993). Play, cognitive development, and the social world: Piaget, Vygotsky, and beyond. Human Development, 36, 1 23.
[reprinted in: P. Lloyd & C. Fernyhough et al. (Eds.) (1999), Lev Vygotsky: Critical Assessments:
Thought and Language, Vol. II (pp. 419-446). New York: Routledge.]

Nicolopoulou, A., Scales, B., & Weintraub, J. (1994). Gender differences and symbolic imagination in the stories of four year olds. In A. H. Dyson & C. Genishi (Eds.), The Need for Story: Cultural Diversity in Classroom and Community (pp. 102-123). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1996). Narrative development in social context. In D. Slobin, J. Gerhardt, J. Guo, & A. Kyratzis (Eds.), Social Interaction, Social Context, and Language: Essays in Honor of Susan Ervin-Tripp (pp. 369-390). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Nicolopoulou, A., & Weintraub, J. (1996). On liberty, cultural relativism and development: A commentary on Van der Veer's "The concept of culture in Vygotsky's thinking". Culture & Psychology, 2, 273-283.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1997). Worldmaking and identity formation in children's narrative play acting. In B.D. Cox & C. Lightfoot (Eds.), Sociogenetic Perspectives on Internalization (pp. 157-187). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1997). Children and narratives: Toward an interpretive and sociocultural approach. In M. Bamberg (Ed.), Narrative Development: Six Approaches (pp. 179-215). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1997). Labov's legacy for narrative research--and its ironies. Journal of Narrative and Life History, 7, 369-377.

Nicolopoulou, A. (1997). The invention of writing and the development of numerical concepts in Sumeria: Some implications for developmental psychology. In M. Cole, Yrjö Engström, & Olga Vasquez (Eds.), Mind, Culture, and Activity: Seminal Papers from the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (pp. 205-225). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
[reprint of Nicolopoulou (1989), listed in my curriculum vitae]

Nicolopoulou, A., & Weintraub, J. (1998). Individual and collective representations in social context: A modest contribution to resuming the interrupted project of a sociocultural developmental psychology. Human Development, 41, 215-235.

Nicolopoulou, A., & Cole, M. (1999). Literacy and cognition. In D.A. Wagner, L. Venezky, & B.V. Street (Eds.), Literacy: An International Handbook. Boulder, CO: Westview.

Richner, E.S., & Nicolopoulou, A. (2001). The narrative construction of differing conceptions of the person in the development of young children's social understanding. Early Education & Development, 12, 393-432.

Nicolopoulou, A., & Weintraub, J. (2001). Appropriation as a theoretical problem and a folk model: Opening up some important and promising agendas. [Commentary on V.G. Aukrust, Agency and appropriation of voice: Cultural differences in parental ideas about young children's talk.] Human Development, 44, 257-263.

Nicolopoulou, A. (2002). Peer-group culture and narrative development. In S. Blum-Kulka & C.E. Snow (Eds.), Talking to adults: The contribution of multiparty discourse to language acquisition (pp. 117-152). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cole, M., & Nicolopoulou, A. (2003). Cognitive consequences of literacy. International Encyclopedia of Linguistics (second edition). New York: Oxford University Press.

Nicolopoulou, A., & Richner, E. S. (2004). 'When your powers combine, I am Captain Planet': The developmental significance of individual- and group-authored stories by preschoolers. Discourse Studies, 6, 347-371.

NICHD Early Child Care Research Network (2005). Pathways to reading: The role of oral language in the transition to reading. Developmental Psychology, 41, 428-442.

Nicolopoulou, A., & Richner, E. S. (in preparation). From actors to agents to persons: The development of character representation in young children's narratives. Manuscript under final revision for Child Development.