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Direct linkNicolette Granata; Chyna Bacchus; Melanie Leguizamon; Jonathan D. Lane – Child Development, 2025
Children with disabilities often receive accommodations, but teachers rarely explain them to typically-developing (TD) classmates. How do TD students reason about these accommodations and evaluate their fairness? Five-, seven-, and nine-year-olds from the United States (N = 122; 50% female; 87.7% white; data collected April 2022-September 2023)…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Students with Disabilities, Student Attitudes
Alexis S. Smith-Flores; Gabriel J. Bonamy; Lindsey J. Powell – Child Development, 2025
Children's evaluations of empathizers were examined using vignette-based tasks (N = 159 4- to 7-year-old U.S. children, 82 girls, 52% White) between March 2023 and March 2024. Children typically evaluated empathizers positively compared to less empathic others. They rated empathic responses as more appropriate, selected empathizers as nicer, and…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Evaluative Thinking, Empathy, Young Children
Bar Levy-Friedman; Tehila Kogut – Child Development, 2025
This study examined children's self-assessment of their prosociality, relative to average peers, in situations where the recipient is described as "needy" versus "not needy" (at a school of average socioeconomic level in south Israel; N = 158; aged 6-12 years; 51% males, December-May 2021). The results show that older children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior
Jamie J. Jirout; Erik Ruzek; Virginia E. Vitiello; Jessica Whittaker; Robert C. Pianta – Child Development, 2023
Learning environments can support the development of foundational knowledge and promote children's attitudes toward learning and school. This study explores the relation between school enjoyment and general knowledge from preschool (2016-2017) to kindergarten (2017-2018) in 1359 children (M[subscript age] = 55, 61 months, female = 50%; 58.5%…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Young Children, Age Differences
Cottrell, Samantha; Torres, Eric; Harris, Paul L.; Ronfard, Samuel – Child Development, 2023
We investigated children's information seeking in response to a surprising claim (Study 1, N = 109, 54 Female, Range = 4.02-6.94 years, 49% White, 21% Mixed Ethnicity, 19% Southeast Asian, infStudy 2, N = 154, 74 Female, Range = 4.09-7.99, 50% White, 20% Mixed Ethnicity, 17% Southeast Asian, September 2020-December 2020). Relative to younger…
Descriptors: Children, Information Seeking, Adults, Trust (Psychology)
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Xiao, Sonya Xinyue; Xu, Jingyi; Berger, Rebecca H.; Pierotti, Sarah L.; Laible, Deborah J.; Carlo, Gustavo; Gal-Szabo, Diana E.; Janssen, Jayley; Fraser, Ashley; Xu, Xiaoye; Wang, Wen; Lopez, Jamie – Child Development, 2023
Relations among White (non-Latinx) children's empathy-related responding, prosocial behaviors, and racial attitudes toward White and Black peers were examined. In 2017, 190 (54% boys) White 5- to 9-year-old children (M = 7.09 years, SD = 0.94) watched a series of videos that depicted social rejection of either a White or Black child.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Racial Attitudes, Whites, African Americans
Nyhout, Angela; Sweatman, Hilary; Ganea, Patricia A. – Child Development, 2023
Children's hypothetical reasoning about a complex and dynamic causal system was investigated. Predominantly White, middle-class 5- to 7-year-old children from the Greater Toronto Area learned about novel food chains and were asked to consider the effects of removing one species on the others. In Study 1 (N = 72; 36 females, 36 males; 2018),…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Thinking Skills, Causal Models, Systems Approach
Sobel, David M.; Stricker, Laura W.; Weisberg, Deena Skolnick – Child Development, 2022
We examined 6- to 9-year-olds' (N = 60, 35 girls, 34% White, 23% Hispanic, 2% Black/African American, 2% Asian/Asian American, 22% Mixed Ethnicity/Race, 17% Unavailable, collected April-September 2019 in Providence, RI, USA) first-person perspectives on their exploration of museum exhibits. We coded goal setting, goal completion, and behaviors…
Descriptors: Young Children, Preadolescents, Museums, Childrens Attitudes
Woolley, Jacqueline D.; Nissel, Jenny; Gilpin, Ansley T. – Child Development, 2021
Verbal testimony about reality status is critical but often contradictory. These studies address whom children consider reliable sources of information about reality and how they evaluate conflicting testimony. In Study 1, seventy 4- to 8-year-olds heard an adult or child provide testimony about how to cook food and use toys, and about the reality…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Information Sources, Evaluative Thinking
Wray-Lake, Laura; Alvis, Lauren; Plummer, Jason A.; Shubert, Jennifer; Syvertsen, Amy K. – Child Development, 2023
To advance knowledge of critical consciousness development, this study examined age-related change in awareness of inequality by race and ethnicity, gender, parent education, generation status, and their interactions. With longitudinal data (2013-2017) from 5019 adolescents in grades 6-12 (55.0% female) from California, Minnesota, and West…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Age Differences, Equal Education, Secondary School Students
Muradoglu, Melis; Cimpian, Andrei – Child Development, 2020
How do children reason about academic performance across development? A classic view suggests children's intuitive theories in this domain undergo qualitative changes. According to this view, older children and adults consider both effort and skill as sources of performance (i.e., a "performance = effort + skill" theory), but younger…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Intuition, Beliefs
Grütter, Jeanine; Dhakal, Sandesh; Killen, Melanie – Child Development, 2022
Investigating socioeconomic status (SES) biases, Nepalese children and adolescents (N = 605, 52% girls, M[subscript age] = 13.21, SD[subscript age] = 1.74) attending schools that varied by SES composition were asked to anticipate whether a peer would include a high or low SES character as a math partner. Novel findings were that students attending…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Bias, Children, Adolescents
Luengo Kanacri, Bernadette P.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Thartori, Eriona; Pastorelli, Concetta; Uribe Tirado, Liliana M.; Gerbino, Maria; Caprara, Gian V. – Child Development, 2017
Bidirectional relations among adolescents' positivity, perceived positive school climate, and prosocial behavior were examined in Colombian youth. Also, the role of a positive school climate in mediating the relation of positivity to prosocial behaviors was tested. Adolescents (N = 151; M[subscript age] of child in Wave 1 = 12.68, SD = 1.06; 58.9%…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, Positive Attitudes, Prosocial Behavior
Elenbaas, Laura; Luken Raz, Katherine; Ackerman, Amanda; Kneeskern, Ellen – Child Development, 2022
This study investigated 3- to 11-year-old US children's (N = 348) perceptions of access to resources, social group preferences, and resource distribution decisions and reasoning when hypothetical peers differed in social class (poor or rich) and race (Black or White). Data were collected in 2019. The sample reflected the region where data were…
Descriptors: Children, Social Influences, Resource Allocation, Social Class
