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Didow, Sharon M.; Eckerman, Carol O. – Social Development, 2001
Investigated whether sustained forms of nonverbal coordinated action facilitates toddlers' generation of verbal discourse with one another. Twenty-four 2-year-olds interacted with an adult, in 2 nonverbal interactive contexts: an imitation game and parallel play. Found that involvement in nonverbal imitation games facilitated toddlers responding…
Descriptors: Imitation, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Language Acquisition

Xie, Hongling; Swift, Dylan J.; Cairns, Beverley D.; Cairns, Robert B. – Social Development, 2002
Investigated interactional properties and developmental functions of the following four types of aggressive behaviors in adolescents: social aggression, direct relational aggression, physical aggression, and verbal aggression. Found that the majority of conflict interactions involved more than a dyad, and that social aggression was an initiating…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Aggression, Conflict