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Davies, Patrick T.; Manning, Liviah G.; Cicchetti, Dante – Child Development, 2013
This study examined whether children’s difficulties with stage-salient tasks served as an explanatory mechanism in the pathway between their insecurity in the interparental relationship and their disruptive behavior problems. Using a multimethod, multi-informant design, 201 two-year-old children and their mothers participated in 3 annual…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), Parent Child Relationship, Behavior Problems, Structural Equation Models
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Anzures, Gizelle; Mondloch, Catherine J.; Lackner, Christine – Child Development, 2009
A novel method was used to investigate developmental changes in face processing: attractiveness aftereffects. Consistent with the norm-based coding model, viewing consistently distorted faces shifts adults' attractiveness preferences toward the adapting stimuli. Thus, adults' attractiveness judgments are influenced by a continuously updated face…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Interpersonal Relationship, Adults, Young Children
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Scherf, K. Suzanne; Behrmann, Marlene; Kimchi, Ruth; Luna, Beatriz – Child Development, 2009
The developmental trajectory of perceptual organization in humans is unclear. This study investigated perceptual grouping abilities across a wide age range (8-30 years) using a classic compound letter global/local (GL) task and a more fine-grained microgenetic prime paradigm (MPP) with both few- and many-element hierarchical displays. In the GL…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Adolescents, Young Adults, Age Groups