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Cohen, Dale J.; Ray, Austin – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Kim and Opfer (2017) report data that demonstrate children produce a negatively accelerating (e.g., logarithmic) response pattern in the unbounded number-line task. This pattern of results is the opposite of those generally reported for the unbounded number-line task (e.g., Cohen & Blanc-Goldhammer, 2011; Cohen & Sarnecka, 2014). We…
Descriptors: Bias, Numbers, Responses, Children
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Browne, Dillon T.; Leckie, George; Prime, Heather; Perlman, Michal; Jenkins, Jennifer M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The present study sought to investigate the family, individual, and dyad-specific contributions to observed cognitive sensitivity during family interactions. Moreover, the influence of cumulative risk on sensitivity at the aforementioned levels of the family was examined. Mothers and 2 children per family were observed interacting in a round robin…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Family (Sociological Unit), Sibling Relationship, Siblings
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Csibra, Gergely; Hernik, Mikolaj; Mascaro, Olivier; Tatone, Denis; Lengyel, Máté – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Looking times (LTs) are frequently measured in empirical research on infant cognition. We analyzed the statistical distribution of LTs across participants to develop recommendations for their treatment in infancy research. Our analyses focused on a common within-subject experimental design, in which longer looking to novel or unexpected stimuli is…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Time, Statistical Distributions, Infants
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Scheibe, Susanne; Freund, Alexandra M.; Baltes, Paul B. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The topic of an optimal or utopian life has received much attention across the humanities and the arts but not in psychology. The German concept of Sehnsucht captures individual and collective thoughts and feelings about one's optimal or utopian life. Sehnsucht (life longings; LLs) is defined as an intense desire for alternative states and…
Descriptors: Developmental Psychology, Self Actualization, Adults, Well Being