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Ma, Lizhi; Twomey, Katherine; Westermann, Gert – Child Development, 2022
Others' emotional expressions affect individuals' attention allocation in social interactions, which are integral to the process of word learning. However, the impact of perceived emotions on word learning is not well understood. Two eye-tracking experiments investigated 78 British toddlers' (37 girls) of 29- to 31-month-old retention of novel…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Vocabulary Development, Eye Movements, Toddlers
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Tan, Lin; Shin, Eunkyung; Page, Kenyon; Smith, Cynthia L. – Child Development, 2023
The current study took a person-centered approach to examine the heterogeneity of changes in children's emotions and persistence during a goal-blocking task and examined how different profiles of emotions and persistence related to children's self-regulation. Children's anger, sadness, and persistence were rated in a goal-blocking task in…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Persistence, Attitude Change, Goal Orientation
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Thompson, Morgan J.; Davies, Patrick T.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L. – Child Development, 2023
The study examined the moderating role of children's affect-biased attention to angry, fearful, and sad adult faces in the link between interparental conflict and children's distinct forms of involvement. Participants included 243 preschool children (M[subscript age] = 4.60 years, 56% female) and their parents from racially (48% African American,…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attention, Preschool Children, Psychological Patterns
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Ladas, Aristea I.; Carroll, Daniel J.; Vivas, Ana B. – Child Development, 2015
Recent research indicates that bilingual children are more proficient in resolving cognitive conflict than monolinguals. However, the replicability of such findings has been questioned, with poor control of participants' socioeconomic status (SES) as a possible confounding factor. Two experiments are reported here, in which the main attentional…
Descriptors: Attention, Bilingualism, Children, Socioeconomic Status
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Cohen-Gilbert, Julia E.; Thomas, Kathleen M. – Child Development, 2013
This study investigated the changing relation between emotion and inhibitory control during adolescence. One hundred participants between 11 and 25 years of age performed a go-nogo task in which task-relevant stimuli (letters) were presented at the center of large task-irrelevant images depicting negative, positive, or neutral scenes selected from…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Psychological Patterns, Adolescents, Young Adults
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Pollak, Seth D.; Vardi, Shira; Bechner, Anna M. Putzner; Curtin, John J. – Child Development, 2005
The present study examines the effects of early emotional experiences on children's regulation or strategic control of attention in the presence of interpersonal hostility. Abused children's reactions to the unfolding of a realistic interpersonal emotional situation were measured through multiple methods including autonomic nervous system changes…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Psychopathology, Risk, Child Abuse