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Falck-Ytter, Terje; Carlström, Christoffer; Johansson, Martin – Child Development, 2015
In humans, effortful cognitive processing frequently takes place during social interaction, with eye contact being an important component. This study shows that the effect of eye contact on memory for nonsocial information is different in children with typical development than in children with autism, a disorder of social communication. Direct…
Descriptors: Autism, Nonverbal Communication, Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes
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Sabol, Terri J.; Pianta, Robert C. – Child Development, 2012
A person-oriented approach examined patterns of functioning in social and executive function domains at 54 months and in turn forecasted 5th-grade socioemotional and achievement outcomes for 944 children. Six distinct profiles of 54-month school readiness patterns predicted outcomes in 5th grade with indications of cross-domain association between…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Low Achievement, Academic Achievement, Short Term Memory
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Smith-Schrandt, Heather L.; Ojanen, Tiina; Gesten, Ellis; Feldman, Marissa A.; Calhoun, Casey D. – Child Development, 2011
In accord with increasing recognition of the situation specificity of childhood social behaviors, individual and contextual differences in children's responses to potential peer conflict were examined (hostile attribution, behavioral strategies, and affective reactions; N = 367, 9-2 years, 197 girls). Situational cues from 2 sources, the…
Descriptors: Cues, Self Efficacy, Conflict, Friendship
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Fenning, Rachel M.; Baker, Bruce L.; Juvonen, Jaana – Child Development, 2011
This study examined parent-child emotion discourse, children's independent social information processing, and social skills outcomes in 146 families of 8-year-olds with and without developmental delays. Children's emergent social-cognitive understanding (internal state understanding, perspective taking, and causal reasoning and problem solving)…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Social Cognition, Problem Solving, Developmental Delays
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Rabiner, David L. – Child Development, 2004
Social information processing theory has been posited as a description of how mental operations affect behavioral responding in social situations. Arsenio and Lemerise (this issue) proposed that consideration of concepts and methods from moral domain models could enhance this description. This paper agrees with their proposition, although it…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Moral Development, Moral Values, Information Processing
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Blair, Clancy; Granger, Douglas; Razza, Rachel Peters – Child Development, 2005
This study examined relations among cortisol reactivity and measures of cognitive function and social behavior in 4- to 5-year-old children (N=169) attending Head Start. Saliva samples for the assay of cortisol were collected at the beginning, middle, and end of an approximately 45-min testing session. Moderate increase in cortisol followed by…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Cognitive Processes, Self Control, Knowledge Level