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Sebastian Grueneisen; Georgina Török; Anushari Wathiyage Don; Azzurra Ruggeri – Child Development, 2024
Choosing adequate partners is essential for cooperation, but how children calibrate their partner choice to specific social challenges is unknown. In two experiments, 4- to 7-year-olds (N = 189, 49% girls, mostly White, data collection: 03.2021-09.2022) were presented with partners in possession of different positive qualities. Children then…
Descriptors: Young Children, Peer Relationship, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning
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Sam R. McHugh; Maureen Callanan; Garrett Jaeger; Cristine H. Legare; David M. Sobel – Child Development, 2024
This study examines how parents' and children's explanatory talk and exploratory behaviors support children's causal reasoning at a museum in San Jose, CA in 2017. One-hundred-nine parent-child dyads (3-6 years; 56 girls, 53 boys; 32 White, 9 Latino/Hispanic, 17 Asian-American, 17 South Asian, 1 Pacific Islander, 26 mixed ethnicity, 7 unreported)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Museums, Thinking Skills, Child Behavior
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Kaylin Ratner; Hou Xie; Gaoxia Zhu; Melody Estevez; Anthony L. Burrow – Child Development, 2025
Purpose offers several important benefits to youth. Thus, it is necessary to understand "how" a sense of purpose develops in supportive contexts and "what" psychological resources can help. From 2021 to 2022, this study investigated purpose change among 321 youth (M[subscript age] = 16.4 years; 71% female; 25.9% Black, 33.3%…
Descriptors: Student Educational Objectives, Independent Study, Student Attitudes, Personal Autonomy