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Zeng, Xiao; Yang, Lijun; Zhu, Xiaoqian; Zhou, Ke; Zhang, Juan; Yan, Zhiqiang – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Empathy is crucial for our social life, with evidences suggesting that executive function is the cognitive basis of empathy. However, debates about the causal relationship between executive function and empathy still exist. A two-wave and one-year longitudinal follow-up experiment is conducted to investigate this problem, mainly focusing on…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Empathy, Child Development
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O'Toole, Sarah E.; Monks, Claire P.; Tsermentseli, Stella; Rix, Katie – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
The primary aim of this study was to examine whether individual differences in cool and hot executive functions (EF) were associated with children's transition to school, in terms of both academic performance and classroom behaviour. Children between 5- and 7-years-of-age (N = 90) completed performance based assessments of cool and hot EF as well…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior, Verbal Ability
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Cigala, Ada; Mori, Arianna; Fangareggi, Francesca – Early Child Development and Care, 2015
Perspective taking, defined as the ability to assume another's perspective, can be considered a multidimensional construct which is composed of three different components: cognitive, visual and affective. This study wanted to verify the possibility of promoting perspective taking in preschoolers using ecological training. The maintenance of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Perspective Taking, Preschool Children, Control Groups
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Gmitrova, Vlasta; Gmitrov, Juraj – Early Child Development and Care, 2004
The goal was to study the impact of a teacher-directed and a child-directed pretend play on cognitive performance in a mixed-age environment. Twenty-six observations were performed on fifty-one kindergarten children with a mean age of 4.6 years (age span from three to six years) in two mixed-aged classrooms. Data were collected regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Guidance, Stimuli