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Direct linkRahel L. van Eickels; Magdalena Siegel; Alice J. Juhasz; Martina Zemp – Child Development, 2025
Empirical findings on the associations of positive and dysfunctional parent--child relationship (PPCR/DPCR) characteristics with child shame, adaptive guilt, and maladaptive guilt were synthesized in six meta-analyses. The 65 included samples yielded 633 effect sizes (N[subscript total] = 19,144; M[subscript age] = 15.24 years; 59.0% female; 67.7%…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Psychological Patterns, Child Development, Meta Analysis
Piantadosi, Steven T. – Child Development, 2023
The study of how children learn numbers has yielded one of the most productive research programs in cognitive development, spanning empirical and computational methods, as well as nativist and empiricist philosophies. This paper provides a tutorial on how to think computationally about learning models in a domain like number, where learners take…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Computation, Models
Allison J. Williams; Judith H. Danovitch – Child Development, 2024
Across two studies, children ages 6-9 (N = 160, 82 boys, 78 girls; 75% White, 91% non-Hispanic) rated an inaccurate expert's knowledge and provided explanations for the expert's inaccurate statements. In Study 1, children's knowledge ratings decreased as he provided more inaccurate information. Ratings were predicted by age (i.e., older children…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Child Development, Decision Making, Children
Alicia K. Jones; Shalini Gautam; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4-9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Psychological Patterns, Decision Making, Emotional Response
S. V. Wass; C. S. Smith; F. U. Mirza; E. M. G. Greenwood; L. Goupil – Child Development, 2025
Children raised in chaotic households show affect dysregulation during later childhood. To understand why, we took day-long home recordings using microphones and autonomic monitors from 74 12-month-old infant-caregiver dyads (40% male, 60% white, data collected between 2018 and 2021). Caregivers in low-Confusion Hubbub And Order Scale (chaos)…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Family Environment, Physiology, Parent Child Relationship
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
Xiuyuan Zhang; Brandon A. Carrillo; Ariana Christakis; Julia A. Leonard – Child Development, 2025
Learning takes time: Performance usually starts poorly and improves with practice. Do children intuit this basic phenomenon of skill learning? In preregistered Experiment 1 (n = 125; 54% female; 48% White; collected 2022-2023), US 7- to 8-year-old children predicted improved performance, 5- to 6-year-old children predicted flat performance, and…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Skill Development, Predictor Variables
Lily Dicken; Thomas Suddendorf; Adam Bulley; Muireann Irish; Jonathan Redshaw – Child Development, 2025
Australian children aged 6-9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Foreign Countries, Task Analysis
Langenhoff, Antonia F.; Engelmann, Jan M.; Srinivasan, Mahesh – Child Development, 2023
Two preregistered experiments (N = 218) investigated children's developing ability to respond reasonably to disagreement. U.S. children aged 4-9, and adults (50% female, mostly white) formed an initial belief, and were confronted with the belief of a disagreeing other, whose evidence was weaker, stronger than, or equal to participants' evidence.…
Descriptors: Children, Beliefs, Adults, Females
Eva Yi Hung Lau; Xiao-yuan Wu; Carrey Tik Sze Siu; Kate E. Williams; Alfredo Bautista – Child Development, 2025
This study evaluates the effectiveness of the "Parent-child Brain Camp," a 4-week video-based executive functions (EFs) training program for children ages 5-6, through a randomized controlled trial with a pre- and post-test design with 173 Hong Kong children (intervention "ni" = 79, 48.7% girls, M[subscript age] = 69.16 months;…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Parent Child Relationship, Comparative Analysis, Intervention
McGuckian, Thomas B.; Wilson, Peter H.; Johnston, Rich D.; Rahimi-Golkhandan, Shahin; Piek, Jan; Green, Dido; Rogers, Jeffrey M.; Maruff, Paul; Steenbergen, Bert; Ruddock, Scott – Child Development, 2023
This longitudinal study modeled children's complex executive function (EF) development using the Groton Maze Learning Task (GMLT). Using a cohort-sequential design, 147 children (61 males, 5.5-11 years) were recruited from six multicultural primary schools in Melbourne and Perth, Australia. Race/ethnicity data were not available. Children were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Executive Function, Elementary School Students
Sharon Faur; Olivia Valdes; Frank Vitaro; Mara Brendgen; Michel Boivin; Brett Laursen – Child Development, 2024
According to the failure model (Patterson & Capaldi, 1990), peer rejection is the intermediary link between problem behaviors and internalizing symptoms. The present study tested the model with 464 monozygotic and same-sex dizygotic twin pairs (234 female, 230 male dyads). Teacher-reported reactive aggression and internalizing symptoms, and…
Descriptors: Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Genetics, Aggression, Rejection (Psychology)
Natasa Ganea; Caspar Addyman; Jiale Yang; Andrew Bremner – Child Development, 2024
This study investigated whether infants encode better the features of a briefly occluded object if its movements are specified simultaneously by vision and audition than if they are not (data collected: 2017-2019). Experiment 1 showed that 10-month-old infants (N = 39, 22 females, White-English) notice changes in the visual pattern on the object…
Descriptors: Infants, Child Development, Multisensory Learning, Recall (Psychology)
van den Berg, Linda; Libertus, Klaus; Nyström, Pär; Gottwald, Janna. M.; Licht, Victoria; Gredebäck, Gustaf – Child Development, 2022
Several studies have previously investigated the effects of sticky mittens training on reaching and grasping development. However, recent critique casted doubts on the robustness of the motor effect of this training. The current study presents a pre-registered report that aimed to generalize these effects to Swedish infants. Three-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Psychomotor Skills, Parent Participation, Training
Gautam, Shalini; Owen Hall, Ruby; Suddendorf, Thomas; Redshaw, Jonathan – Child Development, 2023
When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking emerges around age 6, but it remains unknown how this development influences children's moral judgments. Across two studies, Australian children aged 4-9 (N = 236,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Moral Values, Developmental Stages, Child Development
