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Direct linkLuke McGuire; Tina Bagus; Alexander G. Carter; Emma Fry; Nadira S. Faber – Child Development, 2025
The present study examined the justifications used by children, adolescents, and adults to justify eating animals. Children (n = 100, M[superscript age] = 9.82, SD = 0.77, female n = 49) as compared to adolescents (n = 76, M[superscript age] = 14.0, SD = 1.62, female n = 36) and adults (n = 113, M[superscript age] = 44.1, SD = 14.4, female n = 54)…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Childrens Attitudes, Eating Habits, Animals
Kirsten H. Blakey; Eva Rafetseder; Giacomo Melis; Ariane Veit; Kea Amelung; Franziska Freudensprung; Kinga Kovacs; Zsófia Virányi – Child Development, 2025
Some philosophers argue that reflection is key to rational thinking. By tying reflective thinking to language, they struggle to account for minimally verbal infants and exclude nonhuman animals. This study assessed processing of undermining defeaters--a basic form of reflective thinking--in 36 two-year-old British children (13 female; M[subscript…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Cognitive Processes, Reflection, Thinking Skills
Doan, Tiffany; Friedman, Ori; Denison, Stephanie – Child Development, 2021
Four experiments examined Canadian 2- to 3-year-old children's (N = 224; 104 girls, 120 boys) thoughts about shared preferences. Children saw sets of items, and identified theirs and another person's preferences. Children expected that food preferences would be more likely to be shared than color preferences, regardless of whether the items were…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries, Preferences
Stefanie Peykarjou; Stefanie Hoehl; Sabina Pauen – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated the development of rapid visual object categorization. N = 20 adults (Experiment 1), N = 21 five to six-year-old children (Experiment 2), and N = 140 four-, seven-, and eleven-month-old infants (Experiment 3; all predominantly White, 81 females, data collected in 2013-2020) participated in a fast periodic visual stimulation…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Child Development, Infants
