Classic theories of self-development suggest people define themselves in part through internalized perceptions of other people's beliefs about them, known as reflected self-appraisals. This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare the neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescence (N = 12, ages 11-14…

Neural correlates of social-cognition were assessed in 9- to- 17-year-olds (N = 34) using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants appraised how unfamiliar peers they had previously identified as being of high or low interest would evaluate them for an anticipated online chat session. Differential age- and sex-related activation…

Development of object identity was studied within the framework of a hiding game that varied the objects themselves instead of their spatial positions. (Authors)

Finding supports the educational theory and practices of Montessori educators. (Authors)

Study demonstrates that the curvilinear relation between age and peripheral learning from films may not be so general a phenomenon as it appeared from previous research. (Author/CB)

The performance of the older subjects (10 years and up) was facilitated by the organizational cues, whereas that of younger subjects was not. (Author)

Major finding of this study demonstrates clear support for the proposed developmental sequence of gestural representation. (Authors)

Results were interpreted in terms of current conceptions of age differences in information-processing speed. (Author)

Study concerned with the mechanisms in terms of which the developmental transformation from one cognitive structure to another occurs. (Author)

Wariness did not set in gradually over a period of time but, on the contrary, was found in its fully developed form at 9 months, having been completely absent at 8 months. (Authors/MB)

This study investigated the hypothesis that there is a developmental trend toward greater flexibility of strategies in visual selection. Subjects were 48 second and sixth graders. (Author/SDH)

Presents a study in which 128 children, from preschool to third grade, chose between an immediate reward and a larger, delayed reward. Imposed delay of response led to more choices to the delayed reward in second graders, but did not affect the choices of younger or older children. (Author/SDH)

This study investigated the development of the concept of a critical search area by means of an action sequence in which a cartoon character loses his toy while walking through his house. The results showed that it is not until ages 7 or 8 that children readily make the inference that the critical area is the only plausible place to search for the…

Offers a developmental perspective on research risk that emphasizes the idea that some risks to children decrease with increasing age; some increase as the child matures; some change in a curvilinear fashion; and some remain essentially stable. Suggests that researchers are in an optimal position to safeguard children's rights. (RH)