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Xu, Jing; Saether, Lucie; Sommerville, Jessica A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Given the centrality of prosociality in everyday social functioning, understanding the factors and mechanisms underlying the origins of prosocial development is of critical importance. This experiment investigated whether experience with reciprocal object exchanges can drive the developmental onset of sharing behavior. Seven-month-old infants took…
Descriptors: Infants, Infant Behavior, Intervention, Comparative Analysis
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Chen, Zhe; Honomichl, Ryan; Kennedy, Diane; Tan, Enda – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The present study examines 5- to 8-year-old children's relation reasoning in solving matrix completion tasks. This study incorporates a componential analysis, an eye-tracking method, and a microgenetic approach, which together allow an investigation of the cognitive processing strategies involved in the development and learning of children's…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Statistical Analysis, Componential Analysis, Cognitive Processes
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Roberts, Steven O.; Gelman, Susan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Recent research questions whether children conceptualize race as stable. We examined participants' beliefs about the relative stability of race and emotion, a temporary feature. Participants were White adults and children ages 5-6 and 9-10 (Study 1) and racial minority children ages 5-6 (Study 2). Participants were presented with target children…
Descriptors: Race, Whites, Children, Adults
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van den Bos, Esther; van Duijvenvoorde, Anna C. K.; Westenberg, P. Michiel – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Adolescents become increasingly sensitive to social evaluation. Some previous studies have related this change to pubertal development. The present longitudinal study examined the role of sociocognitive development. We investigated whether or not the transition to recursive thinking, the ability to think about (others') thoughts, would be…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Development, Cognitive Development, Longitudinal Studies
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Vander Heyden, Karin M.; Huizinga, Mariette; Jolles, Jelle – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Children practice their spatial skills when playing with spatial toys, such as construction materials, board games, and puzzles. Sex and SES differences are observed in the engagement in such spatial play activities at home, which relate to individual differences in spatial performance. The current study investigated the effects of explicitly…
Descriptors: Intervention, Play, Games, Puzzles
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O'Reilly, Karin; Peterson, Candida C.; Wellman, Henry M. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Two studies addressed key theoretical debates in theory of mind (ToM) development by comparing (a) deaf native signers (n = 18), (b) deaf late signers (n = 59), and (c) age-matched hearing persons (n = 74) in childhood (Study 1: n = 81) and adulthood (Study 2: n = 70) on tests of first- and second-order false belief and conversational sarcasm.…
Descriptors: Deafness, Negative Attitudes, Theory of Mind, Sign Language