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Heyman, Gail D.; Itakura, Shoji; Lee, Kang – Social Development, 2011
Children's reasoning about the appropriateness of accepting credit for one's own prosocial behavior was examined. Participants aged 7-11 years old in Japan and the USA (total N = 206) were presented with a series of stories in which a protagonist performs a good deed and is asked about it by another character. Across stories, the protagonist…
Descriptors: Socialization, Prosocial Behavior, Foreign Countries, Social Environment
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Morgan, Judith K.; Izard, Carroll E.; King, Kristen A. – Social Development, 2010
Current emotion knowledge (EK) measures examine only one component of the multifaceted construct. We examined the reliability and the construct validity of a new measure of EK, the emotion matching task (EMT). The EMT consists of four parts which measure the components of receptive EK, expressive EK, emotion situation knowledge, and emotion…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Verbal Ability
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Flynn, Emma; Whiten, Andrew – Social Development, 2008
Developmental and gender effects in the transmission of information about a tool-use task were investigated within a "diffusion chain" design. One hundred and twenty-seven children (65 three-year-olds and 62 five-year-olds) participated. Eighty children took part in diffusion chains in which consecutive children in chains of five witnessed two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Task Analysis, Children, Control Groups