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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat – Child Development, 2013
Four- to 10-year-olds and adults (N = 265) responded to eight scenarios presented on an eye tracker. Each trial involved a character who encounters a perpetrator who had previously enacted positive (P), negative (N), or both types of actions toward him or her in varying sequences (NN, PP, PN, and NP). Participants predicted the character's…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Bias, Attention
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Carlson, Stephanie M.; Zayas, Vivian; Guthormsen, Amy – Child Development, 2009
Individual differences in affective decision making were examined by recording event-related potentials (ERPs) while 74 typically developing 8-year-olds (38 boys, 36 girls) completed a 4-choice gambling task (Hungry Donkey Task; E. A. Crone & M. W. van der Molen, 2004). ERP results indicated: (a) a robust P300 component in response to feedback…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Punishment, Cognitive Processes, Decision Making
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Mann, Leon – Child Development, 1973
It was concluded that in grade school children the tendency to be reflective in problem solving also entails a disposition to take longer in making decisions. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Conceptual Tempo, Decision Making, Grade 1
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Lemerise, Elizabeth A.; Arsenio, William F. – Child Development, 2000
Interprets literature on contributions of social cognitive and emotion processes to children's social competence in the context of an integrated model of emotion processes and cognition in social information processing. Provides neurophysiological and functional evidence for the centrality of emotion processes in personal-social decision making.…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Children, Cues, Decision Making