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Segretin, M. Soledad; Hermida, M. Julia; Prats, Lucía M.; Fracchia, Carolina S.; Ruetti, Eliana; Lipina, Sebastián J. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
For at least eight decades, researchers have analyzed the association between childhood poverty and cognitive development in different societies worldwide, but few of such studies have been carried out in Latin America. The aim of the present paper is to systematically review the empirical studies that have analyzed the associations between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Poverty, Cognitive Development
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Wainryb, Cecilia – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2000
Notes that moral decisions include both moral concepts and factual beliefs. Considers possible sources of variation in factual beliefs and presents research into children's and adults' thinking about practices based on factual beliefs different from their own. Discusses how individuals take these differences into account when judging the seemingly…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cognitive Development, Individual Differences, Moral Development
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Laursen, Brett; Hartup, Willard W. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2002
Discusses how friendships are transformed from equality-based exchange relationships during early childhood into need-based communal relationships during adolescence. Builds upon thesis that developmental changes in friendships can best be understood using both deep- and surface- structure levels of analysis. Examines cognitive representations of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Friendship