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Direct linkWang, Yang; Qian, Miao; Nabbijohn, A. Natisha; Wen, Fangfang; Fu, Genyue; Zuo, Bin; VanderLaan, Doug P. – Developmental Science, 2022
Current understanding of how culture relates to the development of children's gender-related peer preferences is limited. To investigate the role of societal acceptance of gender nonconformity, this study compared children from China and Thailand. Unlike China and other cultures where the conceptualization of gender as binary is broadly accepted,…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Preferences, Gender Differences, Child Development
Qiao Chai; Jun Yin; Mowei Shen; Jie He – Developmental Science, 2024
Children's sharing behavior is profoundly shaped by social norms within their society, and they can learn these norms by directly observing how most others share in their immediate environment. Here we systematically investigated the impact of majority influence on the sharing behavior of young Chinese children through three studies (N = 336, 168…
Descriptors: Young Children, Sharing Behavior, Physical Environment, Influences
Ka I Ip; Alison L. Miller; Li Wang; Barbara Felt; Sheryl L. Olson; Twila Tardif – Developmental Science, 2024
Are children from "Eastern" cultures less emotionally expressive and reactive than children from "Western" cultures? To answer this, we used a multi-level and multi-contextual approach to understand variations in emotion displays and cortisol reactivity among preschoolers living in China and the United States. One hundred two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emotional Response, Self Management, Self Expression
Chen, Jin; Kwok, Sze Chai; Song, Yongning – Developmental Science, 2023
The relationship between executive function and second-language ability remains contentious in bilingual children; thus, the current study focused on this issue. In total, 371 Uyghur-Chinese bilingual children ranging from 3 to 6 years old were assessed by a battery of tasks measuring language ability (expressive vocabulary tests, receptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Bilingualism, Executive Function
Huiguang Ren; Craig H. Hart; Charissa S. L. Cheah; Chris L. Porter; David A. Nelson; H. Melis Yavuz-Müren; Wen Gao; Fatimah Haron; Liuqing Jiang; Akiko Kawashima; Ai Shibazaki-Lau; Jun Nakazawa; Larry J. Nelson; Clyde C. Robinson; Ayse Bilge Selçuk; Cortney Evans-Stout; Jo-Pei Tan; Chongming Yang; Ai-Hwa Quek; Nan Zhou – Developmental Science, 2024
This study compared parenting across four non-Western cultures to test cross-cultural commonality and specificity principles in three aspects: measurement properties, parenting normativeness, and their associations with child outcomes. Both mothers and fathers (N = 1509 dyads) with preschool-aged children (M = 5.00 years; 48% girls) from urban…
Descriptors: Parenting Skills, Cultural Differences, Evaluation Methods, Behavior Standards
Su, Mengmeng; Thiebaut de Schotten, Michel; Zhao, Jingjing; Song, Shuang; Zhou, Wei; Gong, Gaolang; McBride, Catherine; Ramus, Franck; Shu, Hua – Developmental Science, 2018
The acquisition of language involves the functional specialization of several cortical regions. Connectivity between these brain regions may also change with the development of language. Various studies have demonstrated that the arcuate fasciculus was essential for language function. Vocabulary learning is one of the most important skills in…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Children
Cowell, Jason M.; Lee, Kang; Malcolm-Smith, Susan; Selcuk, Bilge; Zhou, Xinyue; Decety, Jean – Developmental Science, 2017
Morality is an evolved aspect of human nature, yet is heavily influenced by cultural environment. This developmental study adopted an integrative approach by combining measures of socioeconomic status (SES), executive function, affective sharing, empathic concern, theory of mind, and moral judgment in predicting sharing behavior in children (N =…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Cultural Influences, Socioeconomic Status, Executive Function
Rodic, Maja; Zhou, Xinlin; Tikhomirova, Tatiana; Wei, Wei; Malykh, Sergei; Ismatulina, Victoria; Sabirova, Elena; Davidova, Yulia; Tosto, Maria Grazia; Lemelin, Jean-Pascal; Kovas, Yulia – Developmental Science, 2015
The present study evaluated 626 5-7-year-old children in the UK, China, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan on a cognitive test battery measuring: (1) general skills; (2) non-symbolic number sense; (3) symbolic number understanding; (4) simple arithmetic--operating with numbers; and (5) familiarity with numbers. Although most inter-population differences were…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Numeracy, Number Concepts
Pan, Jinger; Song, Shuang; Su, Mengmeng; McBride, Catherine; Liu, Hongyun; Zhang, Yuping; Li, Hong; Shu, Hua – Developmental Science, 2016
The present study reported data on phonological awareness, morphological awareness, and Chinese literacy skills of 294 children from an 8-year longitudinal study. Results showed that mainland Chinese children's preliterate syllable awareness at ages 4 to 6 years uniquely predicted post-literate morphological awareness at ages 7 to 10 years.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonological Awareness, Morphology (Languages), Literacy
Xiao, Wen S.; Fu, Genyue; Quinn, Paul C.; Qin, Jinliang; Tanaka, James W.; Pascalis, Olivier; Lee, Kang – Developmental Science, 2015
The present study examined whether perceptual individuation training with other-race faces could reduce preschool children's implicit racial bias. We used an "angry = outgroup" paradigm to measure Chinese children's implicit racial bias against African individuals before and after training. In Experiment 1, children between 4 and 6 years…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Differences, Human Body, Preschool Children
Chonchaiya, Weerasak; Tardif, Twila; Mai, Xiaoqin; Xu, Lin; Li, Mingyan; Kaciroti, Niko; Kileny, Paul R.; Shao, Jie; Lozoff, Betsy – Developmental Science, 2013
Auditory processing capabilities at the subcortical level have been hypothesized to impact an individual's development of both language and reading abilities. The present study examined whether auditory processing capabilities relate to language development in healthy 9-month-old infants. Participants were 71 infants (31 boys and 40 girls) with…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Language Processing, Infants, Language Acquisition
Kelly, David J.; Liu, Shaoying; Rodger, Helen; Miellet, Sebastien; Ge, Liezhong; Caldara, Roberto – Developmental Science, 2011
Perception and eye movements are affected by culture. Adults from Eastern societies (e.g. China) display a disposition to process information "holistically," whereas individuals from Western societies (e.g. Britain) process information "analytically." Recently, this pattern of cultural differences has been extended to face…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Movements, Children, Cultural Differences
Shu, Hua; Peng, Hong; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Developmental Science, 2008
Two studies explored the nature of phonological awareness (PA) in Chinese. In Study 1, involving 146 children, awareness of phoneme onset did not differ from chance levels at ages 3-5 years in preschool but increased to 70% correct in first grade, when children first received phonological coding (Pinyin) instruction. Similarly, tone awareness was…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonological Awareness, Coding, Grade 1
