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Alicia K. Jones; Shalini Gautam; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Decision Making, Emotional Response
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Burnett Heyes, Stephanie; Jih, Yeou-Rong; Block, Per; Hiu, Chii-Fen; Holmes, Emily A.; Lau, Jennifer Y. F. – Child Development, 2015
Adolescence is characterized as a period of social reorientation toward peer relationships, entailing the emergence of sophisticated social abilities. Two studies (Study 1: N = 42, ages 13-17; Study 2: N = 81, ages 13-16) investigated age group differences in the impact of relationship reciprocation within school-based social networks on an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Networks, Peer Relationship, Social Development
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Klaczynski, Paul A. – Child Development, 2001
Examined the relationship between age and the normative/descriptive gap--the discrepancy between actual reasoning and traditional standards for reasoning. Found that middle adolescents performed closer to normative ideals than early adolescents. Factor analyses suggested that performance was based on two processing systems, analytic and heuristic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Decision Making, Performance Factors
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Harris, Paul L.; Nunez, Maria – Child Development, 1996
Examined whether young children can identify breaches of a permission rule and their sensitivity to the implications of such rules. Found that preschool children show considerable facility in reasoning about permission rules and can justify their choices. Results suggest that, when children violate a permission rule, they do so knowingly. (MOK)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Behavior, Child Development, Cognitive Development
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Bigler, Rebecca S.; Liben, Lynn S. – Child Development, 1990
Hypothesized that reduction of schematic processing distortions would lead to increased flexibility in children's beliefs about what men and women can do. Subjects were 76 children between 6 and 11 years of age. The intervention led to a reduction in children's occupational stereotyping. (RH)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Decision Making, Intervention
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Chandler, Michael J.; Sokol, Bryan W.; Wainryb, Cecilia – Child Development, 2000
Makes a case for rereading the fact-value dichotomy that currently divides the contemporaneous literatures dealing with children's moral reasoning development and their evolving theories of mind. Presents findings from two research programs, in which children's beliefs about truth and rightness are combined, to illustrate the natural…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes, Children
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Robinson, E. J.; Whitcombe, E. L. – Child Development, 2003
Examined preschoolers' suggestibility when initial beliefs about an object's identity were contradicted by experimenter's suggestion. Found that subjects were good at accepting the suggestion only when the experimenter was better informed than they. Children were least accurate at reporting whether their final belief was based on what they were…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development
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Jacobs, Janis E.; Potenza, Maria – Child Development, 1991
In a study of the use of baserates and the representativeness heuristic, children and college students made judgments about scenarios that varied by domain and information provided. The use of baserates and heuristic, and the consistency between subjects' choices and rationales, increased with age. Use of individuating information developed early.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Decision Making
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Ward, Thomas B.; And Others – Child Development, 1989
Studied the way in which 32 preschoolers aged three-five years, 28 second-graders and 64 undergraduates generalized from a labeled exemplar to other potential members of the same category. Results indicated that preschoolers focused mostly on single attributes in making category decisions and older individuals primarily exhibited multiple…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Classification, Cognitive Development, Decision Making
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Helwig, Charles C.; Arnold, Mary Louise; Tan, Dingliang; Boyd, Dwight – Child Development, 2003
This study explored judgments and reasoning of Chinese 13- to 18-year-olds regarding making decisions involving children in peer, family, and school contexts. Findings indicated that judgments and reasoning about decision-making varied by social context and by the decision under consideration. Evaluations of procedures became more differentiated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Child Relationship, Age Differences, Childrens Rights