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Venus Ho; Emily Stonehouse; Ori Friedman – Developmental Psychology, 2024
Although stories for children often feature supernatural and fantastical events, children themselves often prefer realistic events when choosing what should happen in a story. In two experiments, we investigated whether 3- to 5-year-olds (total N = 240 from diverse backgrounds) might be more likely to include fantastical events in stories about…
Descriptors: Fiction, Fantasy, Child Development, Preferences
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Lu, Linxi; Vasilyeva, Marina; Laski, Elida V. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Given the established role of parental talk in the growth of math knowledge in preschoolers, there has been an increasing focus on identifying ways to promote parental math talk at this stage of child development. The current study investigated how parental math talk is affected by features of play materials and contexts. The features were…
Descriptors: Play, Mathematics Instruction, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development
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Noyes, Alexander; Dunham, Yarrow; Keil, Frank C. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
We systematically compared beliefs about animal (e.g., "lion"), artifactual (e.g., "hammer"), and institutional (e.g., "police officer") categories, aiming to identify whether people draw different inferences about which categories are subjective and which are socially constituted. We conducted two studies with 270…
Descriptors: Animals, Preschool Children, Children, Child Development
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Slonecker, Emily M.; Klemfuss, J. Zoe – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The extant literature on the use of autonomy support during caregiver-child conversations has focused primarily on conversations about fun, shared experiences, with limited consideration of unshared experiences or attention toward the role of conversation context. The present study examined how autonomy support, conversation context, and child age…
Descriptors: Memory, Personal Autonomy, Prediction, Preschool Children
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Park, Ye Rang; Nix, Robert L.; Gill, Sukhdeep; Hostetler, Michelle L. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
The present study examined what kind of parenting best supports toddlers' self-control in the context of poverty. Parents and toddlers (52% female; M[subscript age] = 2.60 years) in 117 families (35% White, 25% Black, 22% Latinx, 15% Multiracial, and 3% Asian; M family income = $1,845/month) engaged in structured interaction tasks, and toddlers…
Descriptors: Self Control, Poverty, Toddlers, Parenting Styles
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Goldman, Elizabeth J.; Wang, Su-hua – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Past research has shown a discrepancy in young infants' use of height information in occlusion and containment events--a pattern typically accounted for by event categorization and rule learning. Broadening these theories, the present experiment examined the role of comparison in young infants' reasoning about physical events. We rotated a typical…
Descriptors: Infants, Physics, Comparative Analysis, Child Development
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Kadooka, Kellan; Franchak, John M. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Visual attention in complex, dynamic scenes is attracted to locations that contain socially relevant features, such as faces, and to areas that are visually salient. Previous work suggests that there is a "global shift" over development such that observers increasingly attend to faces with age. However, no prior work has tested whether…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Human Body, Visual Stimuli
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Jiménez, Eva; Hills, Thomas T. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The present study investigates the relation between language environment and language delay in 63 British-English speaking children (19 typical talkers (TT), 22 late talkers (LT), and 22 late bloomers (LB) aged 13 to 18 months. Families audio recorded daily routines and marked the new words their child produced over a period of 6 months. To…
Descriptors: Semantics, Speech Communication, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis
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Plate, Rista C.; Shutts, Kristin; Cochrane, Aaron; Green, C. Shawn; Pollak, Seth D. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Children have a powerful ability to track probabilistic information, but there are also situations in which young learners simply follow what another person says or does at the cost of obtaining rewards. This latter phenomenon, sometimes termed bias to trust in testimony, has primarily been studied in children preschool-age and younger, presumably…
Descriptors: Probability, Trust (Psychology), Preschool Children, Children
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Blomquist, Christina; McMurray, Bob – Developmental Psychology, 2023
As a spoken word unfolds over time, similar sounding words ("cap" and "cat") compete until one word "wins". Lexical competition becomes more efficient from infancy through adolescence. We examined one potential mechanism underlying this development: lexical inhibition, by which activated candidates suppress…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Acquisition, Age Differences, Word Recognition
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Toppe, Theo; Hardecker, Susanne; Haun, Daniel B. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
This study examined preschoolers' social inclusion--the active involvement of new partners into social interactions--in different intergroup contexts. Using an interactive paradigm, 3- to 5-year-old German children played a ball-tossing game with 2 puppets in which 1 puppet initiated the game with the child and another approached the game. In…
Descriptors: Social Integration, Preschool Children, Games, Puppetry
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Frausel, Rebecca R.; Richland, Lindsey E.; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Personal narrative is decontextualized talk where individuals recount stories of personal experience about past or future events. As an everyday discursive speech type, narrative potentially invites parents and children to explicitly link together, generalize from, and make inferences about representations--that is, to engage in higher-order…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Thinking Skills, Family Environment, Personal Narratives
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Lubke, Gitta H.; McArtor, Daniel B.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Bartels, Meike – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Longitudinal data from a large sample of twins participating in the Netherlands Twin Register (n = 42,827, age range 3-16) were analyzed to investigate the genetic and environmental contributions to childhood aggression. Genetic auto-regressive (simplex) models were used to assess whether the same genes are involved or whether new genes come into…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Twins, Aggression
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Smith, Craig E.; Warneken, Felix – Developmental Psychology, 2016
Research on distributive justice indicates that preschool-age children take issues of equity and merit into account when distributing desirable items, but that they often prefer to see desirable items allocated equally in third-party tasks. By contrast, less is known about the development of retributive justice. In a study with 4- to 10-year-old…
Descriptors: Children, Logical Thinking, Justice, Child Development
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Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Todd, James Torrence; Castellanos, Irina; Sorondo, Barbara M. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The development of attention to dynamic faces versus objects providing synchronous audiovisual versus silent visual stimulation was assessed in a large sample of infants. Maintaining attention to the faces and voices of people speaking is critical for perceptual, cognitive, social, and language development. However, no studies have systematically…
Descriptors: Attention, Infants, Human Body, Habituation
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