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Degnan, Kathryn A.; Hane, Amie Ashley; Henderson, Heather A.; Moas, Olga Lydia; Reeb-Sutherland, Bethany C.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The goals of the current study were to investigate the stability of temperamental exuberance across infancy and toddlerhood and to examine the associations between exuberance and social-emotional outcomes in early childhood. The sample consisted of 291 4-month-olds followed at 9, 24, and 36 months and again at 5 years of age. Behavioral measures…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Social Behavior, Young Children, Personality Traits
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Greenfield, Patricia M. – Developmental Psychology, 2009
P. M. Greenfield's new theory of social change and human development aims to show how changing sociodemographic ecologies alter cultural values and learning environments and thereby shift developmental pathways. Worldwide sociodemographic trends include movement from rural residence, informal education at home, subsistence economy, and…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Social Behavior, Ecology, Social Change
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Banerjee, Robin; Yuill, Nicola; Larson, Christina; Easton, Kate; Robinson, Elizabeth; Rowley, Martin – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Two experiments investigated children's implicit and explicit differentiation between beliefs about matters of fact and matters of opinion. In Experiment 1, 8- to 9-year-olds' (n = 88) explicit understanding of the subjectivity of opinions was found to be limited, but their conformity to others' judgments on a matter of opinion was considerably…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Opinions, Anthropology, Adolescents
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Castelli, Luigi; De Amicis, Leyla; Sherman, Steven J. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The goal of this article was to investigate an indirect form of intergroup differentiation in children in the context of racial attitudes: the preference for ingroup members who interact positively with other ingroup members rather than with outgroup members. Study 1 confirmed this general hypothesis with preschool and 1st-grade children,…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, Intergroup Relations, Interaction Process Analysis, Preschool Children
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Parker, Jeffrey G.; Low, Christine M.; Walker, Alisha R.; Gamm, Bridget K. – Developmental Psychology, 2005
Children's vulnerability to jealousy surrounding their best friends was explored in 2 studies. Study 1 involved 94 adolescents who reported on their friendship jealousy on a newly created measure. Results indicated that the jealousy measure had sound psychometric properties and produced individual differences that were robust over time and free…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Psychometrics, Social Adjustment, Friendship
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Green, Kerry M.; Ensminger, Margaret E. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
The authors examined the effects of heavy adolescent marijuana use on employment, marriage, and family formation and tested both dropping out of high school and adult marijuana use as potential mediators of these associations among a community sample of African Americans followed longitudinally from age 6 to age 32-33. They used propensity …
Descriptors: Adolescents, Marriage, Marijuana, Adults