Investigates kindergarten children's ability to comprehend and appreciate cognitively-oriented humor. Conceptual development was measured by assessing children's responses to a liquid conservation task modeled after Piaget. Results fail to support previous theories and indicate that a majority of the children fully comprehended and were able to…

Examined impression management and humorous message production. Prekindergarten to grade eight children's humorous messages indicated an association between age, sex, target, and prosocial-antisocial humorous themes. Prior to grade four, children produced more prosocial than antisocial humorous messages, and after grade four, produced more…

Explores developmental patterns in children from kindergarten through grade six. Highlights physical development, including height, activity level, motor skills, and health; mental development, including abstract thought, academic focus, learning difficulties, subject preferences, and creativity; psychosocial development, including interpersonal…