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de Bordes, Pieter F.; Hasselman, Fred; Cox, Ralf F. A. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study investigated the developing ability of children to identify emotional facial expressions in terms of the contexts in which they generally occur. We presented Dutch 6- to 9-year-old primary school children (N = 164, 98 girls) prototypical contexts for different emotion categories and asked them whether different kinds of facial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nonverbal Communication, Elementary School Students, Emotional Response
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Freund, Alexandra M.; Blanchard-Fields, Fredda – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Four studies utilizing different methodological approaches investigated adult age-related differences in altruism (i.e., contributions to the public good) and the self-centered value of increasing personal wealth. In Study 1, data from the World Values Survey (World Values Survey Association, 2009) provided 1st evidence of a negative association…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Research Methodology, Altruism, Values
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Posada, German; Carbonell, Olga A.; Alzate, Gloria; Plata, Sandra J. – Developmental Psychology, 2004
According to attachment theory, the quality of care plays a key role in the organization of infants' secure base behavior across contexts and cultures. Yet information about attachment relationships in a variety of cultures is scarce, and questions remain as to whether Ainsworth's conceptualization of early care quality (sensitivity; M. D. S.…
Descriptors: Infant Behavior, Infants, Attachment Behavior, Parent Child Relationship
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Trehub, Sandra E.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1991
A modification of the observer-based psychoacoustic procedure was used to estimate the detectability of auditory signals by infants. Data from infants up to 3.5 months of age revealed improvement in performance as a function of increasing signal intensity and age. (BC)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Stimuli