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Spence, Janet T. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Disadvantaged, Preschool Children
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Masters, John C. – Child Development, 1972
The theory of social comparison postulates that the tendency to compare one's performance to others' will decrease as a function of the discrepancy between the quality of one's own performance and that of the comparison person. (Author/MB)
Descriptors: Altruism, Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Identification (Psychology)
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Berman, Phyllis W. – Child Development, 1971
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Discrimination Learning, Motivation
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Bryan, James H.; And Others – Child Development, 1971
Experiment studied the effectiveness of social reinforcement by a model who demonstrated varying degrees of commitment to the norm of giving or social responsibility. (Authors)
Descriptors: Altruism, Behavioral Science Research, Data Analysis, Interaction Process Analysis
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Stein, Gerald M.; Bryan, James H. – Child Development, 1972
Results indicated that girls' rule violations were affected by the model's skill level, and by interaction of the model's verbal and behavioral expressions relevant to those rules. (Authors)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Behavioral Science Research, Females, Grade 3
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Miller, Anthony G.; Thomas, Ron – Child Development, 1972
Results show that there is a marked tendency for Blackfoot children to cooperate with each other when it is adaptive to do so and seem better able to inhibit competitive responses than non-Indian children. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: American Indians, Behavioral Science Research, Comparative Analysis, Cooperation