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Newborn Irritability Moderates the Association between Infant Attachment Security and Toddler Exploration and Sociability
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Stupica, Brandi; Sherman, Laura J.; Cassidy, Jude – Child Development, 2011
This longitudinal investigation of 84 infants examined whether the effect of 12-month attachment on 18- and 24-month exploration and sociability with unfamiliar adults varied as a function of newborn irritability. As expected, results revealed an interaction between attachment (secure vs. insecure) and irritability (highly irritable vs. moderately…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Social Development
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology.
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Geary, David C.; Bjorklund, David F. – Child Development, 2000
Describes evolutionary developmental psychology as the study of the genetic and ecological mechanisms that govern the development of social and cognitive competencies common to all human beings and the epigenetic (gene-environment interactions) processes that adapt these competencies to local conditions. Outlines basic assumptions and domains of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Competence, Developmental Psychology, Evolution
A Systems Approach toward the Functional Connections of Attachment and Fear
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Bischof, Norbert – Child Development, 1975
A model of infant social behavior is developed which incorporates attachment to the familiar and fear of strangers as well as detachment from the familiar and exploration of the stranger. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Fear, Infant Behavior, Models
On the Acquisition of the Discounting Principle: An Experimental Test of a Social-Developmental Model.
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Kassin, Saul M.; Ellis, Shari A. – Child Development, 1988
Studied a social developmental model of discounting. Experiments showed that discounting increased according to the degree of similarity between the task situation and subjects' earlier experience. Although older children discounted consistently, younger children discounted only after a relevant script-generating experience. (RJC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Early Experience, Elementary Education
Social Life in Cultures: Judgments, Conflict, and Subversion.
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Turiel, Elliot; Wainryb, Cecilia – Child Development, 2000
Presents a developmentally grounded perspective on study of social life in cultures that examines sources of coexistence of sociability and opposition, harmony and conflict, acceptance and critique. Proposes that coexistence of these elements is systematically connected both to development of distinct domains of thought and to the dynamics of…
Descriptors: Conflict, Cultural Context, Culture, Individualism
The Emergence of Same-Sex Affiliative Preferences among Preschool Peers: A Developmental/Ethological Perspective.
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La Freniere, Peter; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Systematic observations of affiliative interaction in 15 stable peer groups were conducted across three years in an urban day care center. Groups contained 193 French-speaking children ranging in age from one to six years. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Ethology, Foreign Countries, Models
Childhood Aggression and Peer Relations in the Context of Family and Neighborhood Factors.
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Kupersmidt, Janis B.; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Tested four different theoretical models (risk, protective, potentiator, and person-environment fit) describing ways that geographical neighborhoods might be associated with aggression and peer relationship problems in 1,271 elementary school children. Results suggest a protective effect of middle-SES neighborhoods on the aggressive behavior among…
Descriptors: Aggression, At Risk Persons, Blacks, Elementary School Students
Children's Social and Scholastic Lives in Kindergarten: Related Spheres of Influence?
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Ladd, Gary W.; Birch, Sondra H.; Buhs, Eric S. – Child Development, 1999
Two studies examined a "child x environment" model of early school adjustment. Findings indicated that entry factors directly and indirectly influenced behavior, participation, and achievement in kindergarten. Initial behavioral orientation influenced the type of relationships formed with peers and teachers. Stressful aspects of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Persons, Child Behavior, Children