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Song, Ruiting; Over, Harriet; Carpenter, Malinda – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Humans have a strong need to belong. Thus, when signs of ostracism are detected, adults often feel motivated to affiliate with others in order to reestablish their social connections. This study investigated the importance of affiliation to young children following priming with ostracism. Four- and 5-year-old children were primed with either…
Descriptors: Young Children, Freehand Drawing, Priming, Rejection (Psychology)
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Weidlich, Joshua; Bastiaens, Theo J. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Transactional distance (TD), the perception of psychological distance between the student and his peers, his instructor/teacher, and the learning content, has long been a prominent construct in research on distance education. Today, distance education primarily takes place over the internet, with technology mediating engagement and communication.…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Distance Education, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Mustafic, Maida; Freund, Alexandra M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2013
Two studies examined the hypothesis that the evaluation of developmental stability changes across adulthood. Results of Study 1 ("N" = 119) supported the expectation that older adults ("M"[subscript age] = 65.29 years)--compared to younger ("M"[subscript age] = 23.38 years) and middle-aged adults…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Hypothesis Testing, Developmental Stages, Adults