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When You're Happy and I Know It: Four-Year-Olds' Emotional Perspective Taking during Online Language Comprehension
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Khu, Melanie; Chambers, Craig; Graham, Susan A. – Child Development, 2018
Using a novel emotional perspective-taking task, this study investigated 4-year-olds' (n = 97) use of a speaker's emotional prosody to make inferences about the speaker's emotional state and, correspondingly, their communicative intent. Eye gaze measures indicated preschoolers used emotional perspective inferences to guide their real-time…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Child Development, Intonation, Suprasegmentals
The Development of Distrust
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Vanderbilt, Kimberly E.; Liu, David; Heyman, Gail D. – Child Development, 2011
Preschool-age children's reasoning about the reliability of deceptive sources was investigated. Ninety 3- to 5-year-olds watched several trials in which an informant gave advice about the location of a hidden sticker. Informants were either "helpers" who were happy to give correct advice, or "trickers" who were happy to give incorrect advice.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Inferences, Metacognition, Deception
Developmental and Individual Differences in Conditional Reasoning: Effects of Logic Instructions and Alternative Antecedents
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Daniel, David B.; Klaczynski, Paul A. – Child Development, 2006
In Study 1, 10-, 13-, and 16-year-olds were assigned to conditions in which they were instructed to think logically and provided alternative antecedents to the consequents of conditional statements. Providing alternatives improved reasoning on two uncertain logical forms, but decreased logical responding on two certain forms; logic instructions…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Cognitive Development, Adolescents, Individual Differences