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Rawlings, Bruce S.; Flynn, Emma G.; Kendal, Rachel L. – Developmental Science, 2022
Innovation and social learning are the pillars of cultural evolution, allowing cultural behaviours to cumulatively advance over generations. Yet, little is known about individual differences in the use of social and asocial information. We examined whether personality influenced 7-11-year-old children's (N = 282) propensity to elect to observe…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Personality Traits, Children, Preadolescents
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Garon, Nancy; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Bryson, Susan E.; Smith, Isabel M.; Brian, Jessica; Roncadin, Caroline; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Armstrong, Vickie L.; Sacrey, Lori-Ann R.; Roberts, Wendy – Developmental Science, 2022
Research concerning temperament in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has suggested a consistent profile of low positive affect, high negative affect, and low regulation (Visser et al., 2016). One area receiving less attention is individual differences among children diagnosed with ASD. The primary objective of this study was…
Descriptors: Self Control, Infants, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Individual Differences
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Tsukayama, Eli; Duckworth, Angela Lee; Kim, Betty – Developmental Science, 2013
Impulsivity is a salient individual difference in children with well-established predictive validity for life outcomes. The current investigation proposes that impulsive behaviors vary systematically by domain. In a series of studies with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse samples of middle school students, we find that schoolwork-related…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Predictive Validity, Individual Differences, Socioeconomic Background