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Peer reviewedSmith, Noel W. – Human Development, 1976
Naturalistic observation of a set of identical twins revealed many differences in personality and motor development. (MS)
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Heredity, Individual Differences, Motor Development
Peer reviewedLewis, Marc D. – Human Development, 1995
Presents a model of cognition and emotion that suggests that feedback between cognition and emotion generates, maintains, and reconfigures interpretations of emotion-eliciting events at micro- and macrodevelopmental time scales and that personality and behavior self-organize in response to fluctuations in perception or cognition and trace…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Feedback, Individual Differences, Models
Peer reviewedMcKinney, J. P. – Human Development, 1980
Investigates the validity of a semiprojective measure of "engagement" with respect to the differential effects of family size. Engagement style refers to the perception one has of oneself as either doing (agent) or being done to (patient). Subjects were 51 male college students ranging in age from 18 to 26 years. (SS)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Employed Parents, Family Influence
Peer reviewedWitkin, Herman A. – Human Development, 1979
Summarizes the theory of psychological differentiation and reviews recent cross-cultural research on the roles of child rearing, culture, and ecology in the development of individual, group, and sex differences in the field dependence-field independence cognitive style component of psychological differentiation. (SS)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Cross Cultural Studies
