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Exposure to Violence across the Social Ecosystem and the Development of Aggression: A Test of Ecological Theory in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
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Paul Boxer; L. Rowell Huesmann; Eric F. Dubow; Simha F. Landau; Shira Dvir Gvirsman; Khalil Shikaki; Jeremy Ginges – Child Development, 2013
Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological model proposes that events in higher order social ecosystems should influence human development through their impact on events in lower order social ecosystems. This proposition was tested with respect to ecological violence and the development of children's aggression via analyses of 3 waves of data (1 wave…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Conflict, Observation
Investigating the Development of Data Evaluation: The Role of Data Characteristics
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Masnick, Amy M.; Morris, Bradley J. – Child Development, 2008
A crucial skill in scientific and everyday reasoning is the ability to interpret data. The present study examined how data features influence data interpretation. In Experiment 1, one hundred and thirty-three 9-year-olds, 12-year-olds, and college students (mean age = 20 years) were shown a series of data sets that varied in the number of…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Data Analysis, Children, Preadolescents