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Direct linkStengelin, Roman; Haun, Daniel B. M.; Kanngiesser, Patricia – Child Development, 2023
Interactions with peers are fundamental to socio-cognitive development, but assessing peer interactions in standardized experiments is challenging. Therefore, researchers commonly utilize puppetry to simulate peers. This Registered Report investigated urban German children's (Age[subscript Range] = 3.5-4.5 years; N = 144; 76[male gender symbol])…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Simulation, Puppetry, Preschool Children
Tess Allegra Forest; Layla Bradford; Lorna Ginnell; Maroussia Berger; Donna Herr; Emmie Mbale; Kavindya Dalawella; Chloë A. Jacobs; Chikondi Mchazime; Celia D'Amato; Zamazimba Madi; Pious Clifford Mkaka; Claudia Espinoza-Heredia; Tembeka Mhlakwaphalwa; Vukiwe Ngoma; Monique Gilmore; Marlie Miles; Jinge Ren; Nwabisa Mlandu; Reese Samuels; Michal R. Zieff; Melissa Gladstone; Kirsten A. Donald; Dima Amso – Child Development, 2025
Cognitive development is associated with how predictable caregivers are, but the mechanisms driving this are unclear. One possibility is caregiver predictability initially shapes how infants gather information for learning. Here, caregiver-infant dyads (N = 222, 2-6-months-old, all female caregivers; data collected 2022-2023) in South Africa and…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Caregiver Child Relationship, Infants, Eye Movements
Bialek, Arkadiusz; Zubek, Julian; Jackiewicz-Kawka, Martyna; Adamik, Klaudia; Bialecka-Pikul, Marta – Child Development, 2022
This study investigates the relations between two forms of joint action (JA)--movement coordination (MC) and goal attainment--and theory of mind (ToM), contrasting the interactionist and traditional cognitivist views. A custom task was carried out to measure the properties of the JAs between children and their parents, while classical tasks were…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Goal Orientation, Theory of Mind, Task Analysis
Aussems, Suzanne; Kita, Sotaro – Child Development, 2021
This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes two types of generalization. We taught 3- to 4-year-olds novel locomotion verbs. Children who saw iconic manner gestures during training generalized more verbs to novel events ("first-order generalization") than children who saw interactive gestures…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Verbs, Generalization, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Ribner, Andrew; Silver, Alex M.; Elliott, Leanne; Libertus, Melissa E. – Child Development, 2023
We explore whether training parents' math skills or playing number games improves children's mathematical skills. Participants were 162 parent-child dyads; 88.3% were white and children (79 female) were 4 years (M = 46.88 months). Dyads were assigned to a number game, shape game, parent-only approximate number system training, parent-only general…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Mathematics Skills, Numbers, Games
Linxi Lu; Marina Vasilyeva; Elida V. Laski – Child Development, 2025
Home math interventions often incorporate informational priming--explicit prompts emphasizing parental math input. While effective in increasing math talk, its impact on child outcome is mixed. This study examined how informational priming shapes the content and dynamic of math interactions. In year 2023, 122 Chinese parent-child dyads…
Descriptors: Priming, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Prompting
C. Bennett; E. M. Westrupp; S. K. Bennetts; J. Love; N. J. Hackworth; D. Berthelsen; J. M. Nicholson – Child Development, 2025
This study examined long-term mediating effects of the "smalltalk" parenting intervention on children's effortful control at school age (7.5 years; 2016-2018). In 2010-2012, parents (96% female) of toddlers (N = 1201; aged 12-36 months; 52% female) were randomly assigned to either: standard playgroup, "smalltalk" playgroup…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parent Child Relationship, Toddlers, Young Children
Donnelly, Seamus; Kidd, Evan – Child Development, 2021
Children acquire language embedded within the rich social context of interaction. This paper reports on a longitudinal study investigating the developmental relationship between conversational turn-taking and vocabulary growth in English-acquiring children (N = 122) followed between 9 and 24 months. Daylong audio recordings obtained every 3 months…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Interpersonal Communication
Vilà-Giménez, Ingrid; Dowling, Natalie; Demir-Lira, Ö. Ece; Prieto, Pilar; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 2021
A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non-Hispanic, 87%) investigated whether the early production of non-referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to referential iconic gestures, in parent-child naturalistic interactions from 14 to 58 months old predicts narrative abilities at age 5. Results revealed that only non-referential…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Ability, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
Senzaki, Sawa; Shimizu, Yuki – Child Development, 2022
Social contexts shape the development of attention; however, little is known about joint attention beyond infancy. This study employed behavioral and eye-tracking measurements to investigate cultural variations in how caregivers direct 3- to 4-year-old children's attention and subsequent changes in children's attention to objects and contextual…
Descriptors: Interaction, Child Behavior, Cultural Differences, Eye Movements
Casillas, Marisa; Brown, Penelope; Levinson, Stephen C. – Child Development, 2020
Daylong at-home audio recordings from 10 Tseltal Mayan children (0;2-3;0; Southern Mexico) were analyzed for how often children engaged in verbal interaction with others and whether their speech environment changed with age, time of day, household size, and number of speakers present. Children were infrequently directly spoken to, with most…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbal Communication, Interaction, Speech Communication
Clegg, Jennifer M.; Wen, Nicole J.; DeBaylo, Paige H.; Alcott, Adam; Keltner, Elena C.; Legare, Cristine H. – Child Development, 2021
Teaching supports the high-fidelity transmission of knowledge and skills. This study examined similarities and differences in caregiver teaching practices in the United States and Vanuatu (N = 125 caregiver and 3- to 8-year-old child pairs) during a collaborative problem-solving task. Caregivers used diverse verbal and nonverbal teaching practices…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Student Relationship, Interaction
Kurkul, Katelyn E.; Corriveau, Kathleen H. – Child Development, 2018
This study explored differences in caregiver-child interactions following children's information-seeking questions. Naturalistic speech from thirty-seven 4-year-olds and their caregivers was used to explore children's information-seeking questions, the caregiver's response, and children's subsequent follow-up. Half of the families were…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Information Seeking, Questioning Techniques, Child Language
Schmerse, Daniel – Child Development, 2020
This study investigates whether children's preschool experiences are associated with later achievement via enhanced learning behaviors using data from a German longitudinal study following children (N = 554) from age 3 in preschool to age 8 in second grade. There were two main findings. First, results suggest that more positive learning behaviors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Elementary School Students, Preschool Children
Nielsen, Mark; Mushin, Ilana; Tomaselli, Keyan; Whiten, Andrew – Child Development, 2016
This study explored how overimitation and collaboration interact in 3- to 6-year-old children in Westernized (N = 48 in Experiment 1; N = 26 in Experiment 2) and Indigenous Australian communities (N = 26 in Experiment 2). Whether working in pairs or on their own rates of overimitation did not differ. However, when the causal functions of modeled…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Young Children, Cultural Differences
