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Swaboda, Nora; Meder, Björn; Ruggeri, Azzurra – Developmental Psychology, 2022
We investigate whether a spatial representation of a search task supports 4- to 7-year-old children's information-search strategies, relative to their performance in a question-asking game. Children played two computationally and structurally analogous search games: a spatial search task, the maze-exploration game, in which they had to discover…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, Spatial Ability, Preschool Children, Information Seeking
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Arini, Rhea L.; Wiggs, Luci; Kenward, Ben – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Although children enact third-party punishment, at least in response to harm and fairness violations, much remains unknown about this behavior. We investigated the tendency to make the punishment fit the crime in terms of moral domain; developmental patterns across moral domains; the effects of audience and descriptive norm violations; and…
Descriptors: Punishment, Ethics, Moral Values, Audiences
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Sierksma, Jellie; Lansu, Tessa A. M.; Karremans, Johan C.; Bijlstra, Gijsbert – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Two studies examined when and why children (10-13 years) help ethnic in-group and out-group peers. In Study 1 (n = 163) children could help an out-group or in-group peer with a word-guessing game by entering codes into a computer. While children evaluated the out-group more negatively than the in-group, they helped out-group peers "more"…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Ethnicity, Helping Relationship