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Effects of Peer Models' Food Choices and Eating Behaviors on Preschoolers' Food Preferences.
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Birch, Leann Lipps – Child Development, 1980
The influence of peer models' food selections and eating behaviors on preschoolers' food preferences was investigated. Thirty-nine preschool children's preferences for vegetables were assessed. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Eating Habits, Food, Models
The Effects of a Laughing versus a Nonlaughing Model on Humor Responses in Preschool Children.
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Brown, Gary E.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Descriptors: Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Humor, Imitation
The Development of Communication: When a Bad Model Makes a Good Teacher.
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Whitehurst, Grover J. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1980
Five experiments were conducted to find out what 6-year-old children learn about communication by switching listener and speaker roles with competent and incompetent adults and peers. (Author/MP)
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Communication Skills, Development
Age Differences in Parent and Peer Influences on Female Sexual Behavior.
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Treboux, Dominique; Busch-Rossnagel, Nancy A. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 1995
Examined changes in influences on adolescent girls' sexual behavior. As expected, influence of parents and friends varied with the girls' ages. Effects of discussion with mother were strongest in 9th and 10th grades. Indirect influence of friends' approval varied across age groups, peaking in 11th and 12th grades; direct effect of peer approval…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, College Students, Females
Smoking Education and Prevention: A Developmental Model.
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Oei, Tian P. S.; Baldwin, Andrea R. – Journal of Drug Education, 1992
Proposes developmental approach to smoking education and prevention for children and adolescents. Reviews literature concerning most appropriate agent, content, and presentation of antismoking education for different ages, concluding that best agents for young children are parents and best agents for pre/early adolescents are peers. For…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Child Development
The Role of Contextual and Personal Factors in Children's Risk Taking.
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Miller, David C.; Byrnes, James P. – Developmental Psychology, 1997
Two experiments tested a self-regulation model of risk-taking among third through eighth graders in which inappropriate risk taking is associated with overconfidence, succumbing to dysregulating influences, and insensitivity to outcomes. Found that ability beliefs, preference for thrill seeking, peer nomination, competitiveness, and interest…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Context Effect