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Nobes, Gavin; Panagiotaki, Georgia; Engelhardt, Paul E. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Two experiments were conducted to investigate the influences on 4-8 year-olds' and adults' moral judgments. In both, participants were told stories from previous studies that had indicated that children's judgments are largely outcome-based. Building on recent research in which one change to these studies' methods resulted in substantially more…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Intention, Young Children, Adults
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Sierksma, Jellie; Lansu, Tessa A. M.; Karremans, Johan C.; Bijlstra, Gijsbert – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Two studies examined when and why children (10-13 years) help ethnic in-group and out-group peers. In Study 1 (n = 163) children could help an out-group or in-group peer with a word-guessing game by entering codes into a computer. While children evaluated the out-group more negatively than the in-group, they helped out-group peers "more"…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Ethnicity, Helping Relationship
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Bello, Arianna; Sparaci, Laura; Stefanini, Silvia; Boria, Sonia; Volterra, Virginia; Rizzolatti, Giacomo – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The capacity to ascribe goals and intentions to others is a fundamental step in child cognitive development. The aim of the present study was to assess the age at which these capabilities are acquired in typically developing children. Two experiments were carried out. In the first experiment, 4 groups of children (age range = 3 years 2 months-7…
Descriptors: Children, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Objectives
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Diesendruck, Gil; Peretz, Shimon – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Visual appearance is one of the main cues children rely on when categorizing novel objects. In 3 studies, testing 128 3-year-olds and 192 5-year-olds, we investigated how various kinds of information may differentially lead children to overlook visual appearance in their categorization decisions across domains. Participants saw novel animals or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Classification, Perception, Animals
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Beier, Jonathan S.; Carey, Susan – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Four experiments investigated whether infants and adults infer that a novel entity that interacts in a contingent, communicative fashion with an experimenter is itself an intentional agent. The experiments contrasted the hypothesis that such an inference follows from amodal representations of the contingent interaction alone with the hypothesis…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Social Environment, Intention, Infants
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Grosse, Gerlind; Behne, Tanya; Carpenter, Malinda; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Infants intentionally communicate with others from before their 1st birthday. But there is some question about how they understand the communicative process. Do they understand that for their request to work the recipient must both understand the request and be cooperatively disposed to fulfill it? On the basis of the study by Shwe and Markman…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Maintenance, Infants, Models