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Thought and Language: Effects of Group-Mindedness on Young Children's Interpretation of Exclusive "We"
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Jared Vasil; Dayna Price; Michael Tomasello – Child Development, 2024
The current study investigated whether age-related changes in the conceptualization of social groups influences interpretation of the pronoun we. Sixty-four 2- and 4-year-olds (N = 29 female, 50 White-identifying) viewed scenarios in which it was ambiguous how many puppets performed an activity together. When asked who performed the activity, a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Preschool Children, Age Differences, Morphemes
What Could You Really Learn on Your Own?: Understanding the Epistemic Limitations of Knowledge Acquisition
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Lockhart, Kristi L.; Goddu, Mariel K.; Smith, Eric D.; Keil, Frank C. – Child Development, 2016
Three studies explored the abilities of 205 children (5-11 years) and 74 adults (18-72 years) to distinguish directly versus indirectly acquired information in a scenario where an individual grew up in isolation from human culture. Directly acquired information is knowledge acquired through firsthand experience. Indirectly acquired information is…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Children, Adults, Older Adults
Did She Jump Because She Was the Big Sister or Because the Trampoline Was Safe? Causal Inference and the Development of Social Attribution
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Seiver, Elizabeth; Gopnik, Alison; Goodman, Noah D. – Child Development, 2013
Children rely on both evidence and prior knowledge to make physical causal inferences; this study explores whether they make attributions about others' behavior in the same manner. A total of one hundred and fifty-nine 4- and 6-year-olds saw 2 dolls interacting with 2 activities, and explained the dolls' actions. In the person condition, each doll…
Descriptors: Inferences, Prior Learning, Attribution Theory, Toys
British Adolescents' and Young Adults' Understanding and Reasoning about the Religious and Nonreligious Rights of Asylum-Seeker Youth
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Tenenbaum, Harriet R.; Ruck, Martin D. – Child Development, 2012
This study examined British young people's understanding of the rights of asylum-seeking young people. Two hundred sixty participants (11-24 years) were read vignettes involving asylum-seeking young people's religious and nonreligious self-determination and nurturance rights. Religious rights were more likely to be endorsed than nonreligious…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Young Adults, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Developmental Dynamics of Emotion and Cognition Processes in Preschoolers
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Blankson, A. Nayena; O'Brien, Marion; Leerkes, Esther M.; Marcovitch, Stuart; Calkins, Susan D.; Weaver, Jennifer Miner – Child Development, 2013
Dynamic relations during the preschool years across processes of control and understanding in the domains of emotion and cognition were examined. Participants were 263 children (42% non-White) and their mothers who were seen first when the children were 3 years old and again when they were 4. Results indicated dynamic dependence among the…
Descriptors: Emotional Development, Cognitive Development, Preschool Children, Mothers
Development of Intra- and Intergroup Judgments in the Context of Moral and Social-Conventional Norms
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Killen, Melanie; Rutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline – Child Development, 2013
Children and adolescents evaluated group inclusion and exclusion in the context of generic and group-specific norms involving morality and social conventions. Participants ("N" = 381), aged 9.5 and 13.5 years, judged an in-group member's decision to deviate from the norms of the group, whom to include, and whether their personal…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Moral Values, Children