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Peer reviewedStrayer, Janet – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Investigates children's person-by-situation knowledge of probable causes of emotion in self and in others, and compares this to adults' construals. Shows that children can generate contextual explanations for affective states in self and others that are both shared by other children and adults and selectively related to different kinds of…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Attribution Theory
Download full textMcGurk, Harry; Lewis, Michael – 1972
Fifty-two 44-month-old children were observed in a nursery school over a period of two weeks with peer and adult oriented behaviors recorded, and data analyzed in terms of the subjects' sex and birth order. Sex effects were as expected, but birth-order effects highlighted the second-born child as representing a distinct category. In particular,…
Descriptors: Birth Order, Bulletins, Child Development, Child Psychology
