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Paulus, Markus; Wörle, Monika; Christner, Natalie – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
The study examined whether preschool children conceive of empathy-based comforting as being an obligatory reaction toward others in emotional need. We presented 3- and 5-year-old children with three scenarios in which protagonists showed different reactions toward an agent who has hurt herself. One protagonist reacted antisocially by laughing at…
Descriptors: Altruism, Empathy, Preschool Children, Emotional Response
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Paulus, Markus; Fikkert, Paula – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2014
Language acquisition is a process embedded in social routines. Despite considerable attention in research to its social nature, little is known about developmental differences in the relative priority of certain social cues over others during early word learning. Employing an eye-tracking paradigm, we presented 14-month-old infants, 24-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Eye Movements