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Development of Social Category Representations: Early Appreciation of Roles and Deontic Relations
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Kalish, Charles W.; Lawson, Christopher A. – Child Development, 2008
Three experiments explored the significance of deontic properties (involving rights and obligations) in representations of social categories. Preschool-aged children (M = 4.8), young school-aged children (M = 8.2), and adults judged the centrality of behavioral, psychological, and deontic properties for both familiar (Experiments 1 and 2, Ns = 50…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Children, Adults, Social Cognition
Young Children's Preference for Mental State versus Behavioral Descriptions of Human Action.
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Lillard, Angeline S.; Flavell, John H. – Child Development, 1990
In the two studies reported, three year olds tended to choose mentalistic descriptions more often than behavioral ones to describe people. (PCB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior, Child Development, Pictorial Stimuli
Perception of Child, Child-Rearing Values, and Emotional Distress as Mediating Links between Environmental Stressors and Observed Maternal Behavior.
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Conger, Rand D.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Findings of this observational study of 74 families tentatively support the conclusion that the psychological characteristics of emotional distress, authoritarian child-rearing values, and negative perceptions of children partially mediate the influence of some demographic/stressful life conditions on the positive and negative behaviors of…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Authoritarianism, Behavior, Child Rearing