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Butti, Niccolò; Finisguerra, Alessandra; Urgesi, Cosimo – Developmental Psychology, 2022
There is inconsistent evidence that human bodies are processed through holistic processing as it has been widely reported for faces. To assess how configural and holistic processes may develop with age, we administered a visual body recognition task assessing the presence of body inversion and composite illusion effects to white adults (114…
Descriptors: Human Body, Whites, Adults, Holistic Approach
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Marcella Caputi; Sandra Bosacki – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: A Peer Relations Journal, 2024
Persuasion skills consist of a complex concoction of specific mental, emotional, and social abilities. Interest in this topic continues to grow; however, there remains limited knowledge on social and cognitive correlates of persuasion in childhood. The present study explores the interrelations among specific cognitive abilities, social skills, and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Persuasive Discourse, Task Analysis
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Moè, Angelica; Putwain, David W. – Educational Psychology, 2020
This study contrasted the effects of two task messages, evaluative or non-evaluative, on mathematics performance, affect, and intrinsic task motivation. One hundred-twenty secondary-school students aged 17-21 years were delivered one of the two messages, or assigned to a control condition, before completing a mathematics task, measures of message…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Gender Differences, Student Motivation, Comparative Analysis