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Lensing, Nele; Elsner, Birgit – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Executive functions (EFs) may help children to regulate their food-intake in an "obesogenic" environment, where energy-dense food is easily available. There is mounting evidence that overweight is associated with diminished hot and cool EFs, and several longitudinal studies found evidence for a predictive effect of hot EFs on children's…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Elementary School Students, Food, Eating Habits
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Yuill, Nicola; Perner, Josef – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1987
Investigated six- to nine-year-old children's understanding of the principle of mutual trust by testing children's ability to make correct blame attributions on the basis of second-order beliefs. Subjects were presented with four story frames. Stories differed in protagonist's second-order belief about another's knowledge. (Author/NH)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Beliefs
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Schrans, Tracy; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1990
When children of three, five, and seven years were tested on two liking-judgment tasks, results indicated that younger children do not make the same types of errors as older children and adults do, and that younger children can more accurately report the variables determining their judgments. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Behavior, Cognitive Processes
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Langlois, Judith H.; Styczynski, Lyn E. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1979
Age-dependent differences in the relationship between physical attractiveness and the social perceptions of acquainted classmates were investigated in children (n=160) 3-10 years of age. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
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Nesdale, Drew; Brown, Kristi – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2004
Given that children have a strong bias towards their in-group, this study examined how children respond to a group member who is revealed to have negative qualities. One hundred and twenty Anglo-Australian children who were 6, 9, or 12 years of age heard a story about an (in-group) Anglo-Australian boy and a (out-group) Chinese boy who were good…
Descriptors: Personality, Recognition (Psychology), Memory, Scores