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The Relationship between Empathy and Executive Functions among Young Adolescents
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Mairon, Noam; Abramson, Lior; Knafo-Noam, Ariel; Perry, Anat; Nahum, Mor – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Empathy and executive functions (EFs) are multimodal constructs that enable individuals to cope with their environment. Both abilities develop throughout childhood and are known to contribute to social behavior and academic performance in young adolescents. Notably, mentalizing and EF activate shared frontotemporal brain areas, which in previous…
Descriptors: Empathy, Correlation, Twins, Longitudinal Studies
The Louisville Twin Study: Developmental Synchronies in Behavior.
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Wilson, Ronald S. – Child Development, 1983
Results show individual differences in intelligence progressively stabilizing by school age, with each child following a distinct pattern of mental development. Monozygotic twins became increasingly concordant over an Hes and were closely matched on developmental trends. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cognitive Development, Family Environment, Individual Differences
Temperament, Emotion, and Cognition at Fourteen Months: The MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study.
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Emde, Robert N.; And Others – Child Development, 1992
Assessments of temperament, emotion, cognition, and language acquisition were obtained for 200 pairs of 14-month-old twins. Comparisons between the assessment correlations for identical and fraternal twins indicated an influence of genetics on inhibition, activity, temperament, empathy, negative emotion, spatial memory, categorization skills, and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Emotional Development, Genetics, Individual Differences
A Longitudinal Twin Study of Intelligence in the Second Year.
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Reznick, J. Steven; And Others – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1997
Examined data from 408 pairs of identical, same-sex fraternal twins at 14, 20, and 24 months to assess cognitive development and to identify genetic and environmental influences on phenotypic similarity. Found various patterns of development for separate constructs, for females versus males on each construct, and for individuals across constructs.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Environmental Influences, Genetics, Individual Differences
The Structure of Language Abilities at 4 Years: A Twin Study.
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Colledge, Essi; Bishop, Dorothy V.M.; Koeppen-Schomerus, Gesina; Price, Thomas S.; Happe, Francesca G.E.; Eley, Thalia C.; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Language development was studied in 310 pairs of 4-year-old twins. Rotated factor analyses indicated presence of a general language factor (L) and a general nonverbal factor (NV). Moderate genetic influence was found for L and NV abilities. Bivariate genetic analysis estimated a genetic correlation of .63 between L and NV abilities. Results…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Factor Analysis, Individual Differences, Language Acquisition
Continuity and Change in General Cognitive Ability from 1 to 7 years of Age.
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Cardon, Lon R.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1992
Yearly cognitive tests were administered to adoptive and nonadoptive siblings between one and seven years of age and identical and nonidentical twins between one and three years. Results indicated that genetic influences are a source of continuity and change in mental development, whereas shared and nonshared environmental effects contribute to…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Developmental Continuity
Infancy to Early Childhood: Genetic and Environmental Influences on Developmental Change.
Emde, Robert N., Ed.; Hewitt, John K., Ed. – 2001
This book analyzes the MacArthur Longitudinal Twin Study, a collaborative study by leading developmental scientists and behavioral geneticists on the transition from infancy to early childhood. Part 1 of the book describes the twin method and procedures used and introduces the analytic strategies. Parts 2 through 4 present results related to…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages