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Kalish, Charles W.; Lawson, Christopher A. – Child Development, 2008
Three experiments explored the significance of deontic properties (involving rights and obligations) in representations of social categories. Preschool-aged children (M = 4.8), young school-aged children (M = 8.2), and adults judged the centrality of behavioral, psychological, and deontic properties for both familiar (Experiments 1 and 2, Ns = 50…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Children, Adults, Social Cognition
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Eisenberg, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Examined changes in prosocial moral reasoning and gender differences in prosocial reasoning over 15 years. Found that hedonistic reasoning declined and then increased somewhat; needs-oriented and stereotypic reasoning increased and then declined with age. Direct reciprocity and approval reasoning showed no decline into early adulthood, contrary to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Emotional Development, Individual Development
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Wiley, Angela R.; Rose, Amanda J.; Burger, Lisa K.; Miller, Peggy J. – Child Development, 1998
Examined personal storytelling of European-American preschoolers from working- or middle-class families as a medium through which they construct autonomous selves. Found that children in both communities had extensive rights to speak of past experiences and limited rights to author experiences. Middle-class communities viewed expressing one's view…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Family (Sociological Unit), Individual Development