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Murphy, Ashley N.; Zheng, Yinyuan; Shivaram, Apoorva; Vollman, Elayne; Richland, Lindsey Engle – Grantee Submission, 2021
Two studies examined factors that predicted children's tendencies to match objects versus relations across scenes when no instruction was given. Study 1 examined a) age and b) nationality as a proxy for cultural differences in experiences with relations. The results showed that Chinese and U.S. children across ages all showed an initial bias to…
Descriptors: Children, Attention, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
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Betts, Lucy R.; Rotenberg, Ken J.; Petrocchi, Serena; Lecciso, Flavia; Sakai, Atsushi; Maeshiro, Kazumi; Judson, Helen – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
The components of children's trust in same-gender peers (trust beliefs, ascribed trustworthiness, and dyadic reciprocal trust) were examined in samples of 8-11-year-olds from the UK, Italy, and Japan. Trust was assessed by children's ratings of the extent to which same-gender classmates kept promises and kept secrets. Social relations analyses…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Trust (Psychology), Children, Peer Relationship
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Zhou, Qing; Lengua, Liliana J.; Wang, Yun – Developmental Psychology, 2009
The relations of parents' and teachers' reports of temperament anger-irritability, positive emotionality, and effortful control (attention focusing and inhibitory control) to children's externalizing and internalizing problems were examined in Chinese (N = 382) and U.S. (N = 322) samples of school-age children. Results suggested that in both…
Descriptors: Personality, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
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Dean, Raymond S. – Psychology in the Schools, 1977
The Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT) was administered to matched samples of 30 Mexican-American and 30 Anglo-American children. Indices of internal consistency and standard errors of measurement were generally equivalent for groups. It was concluded that the PIAT is as reliable with Mexican-American children as with their Anglo…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Children, Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education
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Saracho, Olivia N. – Early Child Development and Care, 1989
A literature review describes several dimensions of cognitive styles in an effort to illustrate individual stylistic differences. Discusses the field dependence-independence dimension, taking into account age, sex, and cultural differences. Suggests that cognitive style theory needs to be structured in a broader theoretical framework. (NH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Style, Cultural Differences
Duvall, Lynn – 1994
This guide for young people ages 13 and older helps them learn more about others and become more tolerant of differences. The more they learn about diversity, the harder it is to stereotype others and feel prejudice toward them. The book lists questions and answers that young people actually ask and provides real-life examples of how other young…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beliefs, Bias, Children
Stanford, Beverly Hardcastle, Ed.; Yamamoto, Kaoru, Ed. – 2001
Based on the view that children have special needs that must be recognized and attended to by the adults who care for them, this book explores the stressful experiences faced by children on a daily basis and presents advice and techniques for protecting children during those challenging experiences. Part 1 of the book focuses on children's…
Descriptors: Children, Coping, Counselor Client Relationship, Cultural Differences