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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Child Development, 2016
Advanced theory-of-mind (AToM) development was investigated in three separate studies involving 82, 466, and 402 elementary school children (8-, 9-, and 10-year-olds). Rasch and factor analyses assessed whether common conceptual development underlies higher-order false-belief understanding, social understanding, emotion recognition, and…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Inhibition, Language Acquisition, Prediction
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Harris, Paul L.; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Describes two experiments that examined children's understanding of the distinction between real and apparent emotion. Discusses the findings in relation to research concerning children's concept of mind, their grasp of the appearance-reality distinction; their ability to produce complex, embedded justifications; and their ideas about emotion.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Ability
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Kusche, 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
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Selman, Robert L. – Child Development, 1971
Role-taking, a prototypical social-cognitive skill, is the ability to view the world (including the self) from another's perspective. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Interpersonal Competence, Peer Relationship, Perspective Taking
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McKown, Clark; Weinstein, Rhona S. – Child Development, 2003
Examined in 2 studies development and consequences of 6- to 10-year-olds' awareness of others' stereotypes. Findings indicated that children's ability to infer an individual's stereotype and awareness of broadly-held stereotypes increased with age. Academically stigmatized groups (African American and Latino) were more likely to be aware of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Asian American Students, Black Students, Childhood Attitudes