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Direct linkCleroux, Angelina; Peck, Joann; Friedman, Ori – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Although people take care of their own possessions, they also engage in stewardship and take care of things they do not own. Here, we examined what young children infer when they observe stewardship behavior of an object. Through four experiments on predominantly middle-class Canadian children (total N = 350, 168 girls and 182 boys from a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Psychological Patterns, Ownership, Inferences
Silletti, Fabiola; Salvadori, Eliala A.; Presaghi, Fabio; Fasolo, Mirco; Aureli, Tiziana; Coppola, Gabrielle – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Mind-mindedness (MM) refers to caregivers' proclivity to treat a child as having an active and autonomous mental life. It has been shown to be a powerful predictor of many developmental outcomes and to mitigate the impact of risk conditions. However, longitudinal studies on MM reporting changes over time and individual differences among mothers…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Socioeconomic Status, Play
Lavelli, Manuela; Carra, Cecilia; Rossi, Germano; Keller, Heidi – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Studies conducted in Western countries document the special role of mother--infant face-to-face exchanges for early emotional development including social smiling. A few cross-cultural studies have shown that the Western pattern of face-to-face communication is absent in traditional rural cultures, without identifying other processes that promote…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Infants, Mothers, Longitudinal Studies
van Schaik, Saskia D. M.; Oudgenoeg-Paz, Ora; Atun-Einy, Osnat – Developmental Psychology, 2018
The present study explored cultural differences in parental beliefs about motor development across 2 Western cultures: Israel and the Netherlands. Can 2 cultural models be distinguished regarding infant motor development in Israel and the Netherlands or are parental beliefs about motor development similar across these cultures? Using a…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Infants, Child Development
Hoff, Erika – Developmental Psychology, 2013
On average, children from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes and children from homes in which a language other than English is spoken have language development trajectories that are different from those of children from middle-class, monolingual English-speaking homes. Children from low-SES and language minority homes have unique linguistic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, English (Second Language), Language Skills, Second Language Learning
Smetana, Judith G.; Jambon, Marc; Conry-Murray, Clare; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L. – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Associations between young children's developing theory of mind (ToM) and judgments of prototypical moral transgressions were examined 3 times across 1 year in 70 American middle class 2.5- to 4-year-olds. Separate path models controlling for cross-time stability in judgments, within-time associations, and children's age at Wave 1 indicated that…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Middle Class, Theory of Mind, Path Analysis
Halim, May Ling; Ruble, Diane N.; Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Zosuls, Kristina M.; Lurye, Leah E.; Greulich, Faith K. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Many young children pass through a stage of gender appearance rigidity; girls insist on wearing dresses, often pink and frilly, whereas boys refuse to wear anything with a hint of femininity. In 2 studies, we investigated the prevalence of this apparent hallmark of early gender development and its relation to children's growing identification with…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Child Development, Sexual Identity, Physical Characteristics
Mosier, Christine E.; Rogoff, Barbara – Developmental Psychology, 2003
This study examined the idea that toddlers in some communities are accorded a privileged status in which they are allowed what they want, assumed not yet to "understand" how to cooperate. U.S. middle-class and Guatemalan Mayan mothers and 3- to 5-year-old siblings were observed while the siblings and toddlers (14-20 months) both sought…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Siblings, Mothers, Maya (People)
