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Florian Markus Bednarski; Katrin Rothmaler; Simon M. Hofmann; Charlotte Grosse Wiesmann – Child Development, 2025
The ability to control movement is a core element of agency. Previous studies of infant agency have focused on responses to sensory contingencies but neglected the importance of infants' control as a necessary indicator of agency. Here, we test whether infants flexibly control their eye movements with a gaze-contingent eye tracking paradigm.…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Eye Movements, Self Control
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Schoppmann, Johanna; Schneider, Silvia; Seehagen, Sabine – Child Development, 2022
Little is known about toddlers' acquisition of specific emotion regulation (ER) strategies, and how early ER is shaped by temperament. This study investigated if 24-month-old German toddlers, predominantly from families with high levels of parental education (N = 96, n = 49 male), learned the ER strategy distraction through observational learning,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Toddlers, Affective Behavior, Self Control
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Asendorpf, Jens B.; Nunner-Winkler, Gertrud – Child Development, 1992
Assessed preschoolers' moral motive strength or attribution of moral emotions to story characters. Also assessed temperamental inhibition and self-control. Children were provided with an opportunity to cheat when they felt they were unobserved. Results indicated that moral motive strength and inhibition predicted low cheating. (BC)
Descriptors: Cheating, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Inhibition