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Caregivers' Social Conformity Predicts Their Judgments of Toddlers' Moral Agency
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Samuel Essler; Markus Paulus – Early Education and Development, 2025
Research Findings: Social constructivist theories have proposed that caregivers' perceptions of children as morally responsible agents are an important factor in children's moral development. However, there is substantial variance in caregivers' ascriptions of moral agency to young children. The present study examined caregiver social conformity…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Moral Values, Child Behavior
Social Rejection from the Perspective of Latency-Age Children: Moral Failing or Normative Phenomenon?
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Hannah Fisher-Grafy; Rinat Halabi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Social exclusion, a pervasive and impactful phenomenon particularly prominent during preadolescence, has traditionally been construed through a moral deficiency lens. This study departs from prevailing research trends, casting a novel light on the phenomenon in the context of normative moral development. It elucidates the role of social exclusion…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Moral Development, Children, Focus Groups
Parenting Measurement, Normativeness, and Associations with Child Outcomes: Comparing Evidence from Four Non-Western Cultures
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Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Family Childhood Spatial Conflict: A Case Study of Young Children's Adaptation to Family Rules Based on Self-Parenting Diaries
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Zheng, Suhua – Global Studies of Childhood, 2023
The family is often thought of as a private space. Relatively little research has been done on the childhood space of the family. Although the family is often considered a warm haven for children to grow up in, it is also a space for child-adult conflict. Based on the researcher's self-parenting diary, this paper uses thematic analysis and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Standards, Behavior Standards
Peer Learning and Cultural Evolution
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Lew-Levy, Sheina; van den Bos, Wouter; Corriveau, Kathleen; Dutra, Natália; Flynn, Emma; O'Sullivan, Eoin; Pope-Caldwell, Sarah; Rawlings, Bruce; Smolla, Marco; Xu, Jing; Wood, Lara – Child Development Perspectives, 2023
In this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavioral norms. We show that instrumental imitation, contingent teaching, generative collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Imitation, Cooperation, Teaching Methods