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Peer reviewedBussey, Kay – Child Development, 1999
Investigated 4-, 8-, and 11-year-olds' ability to categorize intentionally false and true statements as lies and truths. Found that older children were more likely to categorize false statements as lies and true statements as truths than were 4-year-olds. Antisocial lies were rated as most serious, and "white lies" as least serious.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Classification, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedKusche, Carol A.; Greenberg, Mark T. – Child Development, 1983
Evaluates the growth of social-cognitive knowledge in deaf and hearing children during the early- and middle-school years and assesses the relative importance of language in two domains of social cognition. In addition, separately examines the child's ability to evaluate the concepts of good and bad and to take another person's perspective. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Ability, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedKoenig, Amy L.; Cicchetti, Dante; Rogosch, Fred A. – Child Development, 2000
Examined moral development in maltreated and non-maltreated 3- and 4-year-olds through observation of child compliance/noncompliance during a cleanup situation following play. Found that abused children exhibited less internalization than non-maltreated. Neglected children showed more negative affect than others. Found no group differences in…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Behavior, Child Neglect, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedKillen, Melanie; Stangor, Charles – Child Development, 2001
Investigated age and context differences in children's judgments about excluding peers from group activities on the basis of gender and race. Found that the vast majority of children rejected exclusion in contexts in which only stereotypes justified exclusion. Older children (13 years) were more likely to allow exclusion than younger (7 and 10…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Children
Peer reviewedLee, Kang; Cameron, Catherine Ann; Xu, Fen; Fu, Genyao; Board, Julie – Child Development, 1997
Compared Chinese and Canadian 7-, 9-, and 11-year-olds' moral evaluations of lie- and truth-telling in stories involving pro- and antisocial behavior. Found that Chinese children rated truth-telling less positively and lie-telling more positively in prosocial settings than Canadians. Both rated truth-telling positively and lie-telling negatively…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Antisocial Behavior, Children, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedParikh, Bindu – Child Development, 1980
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies
Peer reviewedPitner, Ronald O.; Astor, Ron Avi; Benbenishty, Rami; Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.; Zeira, Anat – Child Development, 2003
Examined effects of negative group stereotypes on reasoning about peer retribution (child hits another child in response to name calling) among 2,604 Arab and Jewish adolescents in Israel. Found evidence that Arab and Jewish students hold stereotypes about one another and that in-group bias affected approval and reasoning about peer retribution…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Aggression
