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Ma, Fengling; Xu, Fen; Heyman, Gail D.; Lee, Kang – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2011
This research examined how Chinese children make moral judgments about lie telling and truth telling when facing a "white lie" or "politeness" dilemma in which telling a blunt truth is likely to hurt the feelings of another. We examined the possibility that the judgments of participants (7-11 years of age, N=240) would differ…
Descriptors: Value Judgment, Social Environment, Foreign Countries, Moral Values
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Tochon, Francois Victor – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This review article is a plea for the education community to reconsider the place of world languages teaching within the schools. With globalization, languages education should be one of the strategic goals of public as well as private education. The article reviews research on the best age level for learning a language, the assets of…
Descriptors: Second Languages, Global Approach, Language Role, Public Education
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Hill, Valerie; Pillow, Bradford H. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2006
In the present study, the authors investigated age differences in children's understanding (a) that a person's behavior may contribute to the formation of a shared opinion within the peer group and (b) that origins of a reputation can be direct or indirect. The authors read stories in which a target character engaged in either prosocial or…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Reputation, Interpersonal Relationship