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Mouw, Jolien M.; Saab, Nadira; Gijlers, Hannie; Hickendorff, Marian; van Paridon, Yolinde; van den Broek, Paul – Frontline Learning Research, 2020
The present study aims to provide a systematic understanding of how perspective-taking ability contributes to primary-school students' cooperative behaviours and learning outcomes. The present study is frontline as we combined person-oriented (e.g., describing patterns of behaviours based on individual characteristics), process-oriented (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Social Cognition, Cooperative Learning, Outcomes of Education
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Masden, Catherine A.; Leung, Olivia N.; Shore, Bruce M.; Schneider, Barry H.; Udvari, Stephen J. – High Ability Studies, 2015
This research examined links among academic ability, social-perspective coordination, and friendship quality, within the context of gifted adolescents' friendships. The sample consisted of 120 early adolescents (59 girls, 61 boys), 81 of whom were identified as gifted. Academic ability, sex, and grade significantly predicted social-perspective…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Friendship, Adolescents, Social Development
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Thompson, Ross A.; Laible, Deborah J. – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Examined the association between attachment and emotional understanding in 2.5- to 6-year olds. Found that age and attachment security predicted a child's aggregate score on emotional understanding tasks. When the score was separated by valence of the emotion, attachment security and age predicted a child's score for only emotions with negative…
Descriptors: Age, Attachment Behavior, Cognitive Development, Emotional Development
Szarkowicz, Diane Louise – 1997
In an attempt to validate the findings of other researchers regarding the development of conceptual perspective taking, this study used Taylor's (1988) 2-tiered model to examine development of perspective taking among 40 3- to 5-year-olds. Participating were 22 males and 18 females from English-speaking backgrounds attending a preschool in…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
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Travis, Lisa; Sigman, Marian; Ruskin, Ellen – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2001
A study investigated the relations between various measures of social understanding and social interaction competence in verbally able children with autism (n=20). Initiating joint attention and empathy were strongly related measures of social interaction competence. No understanding-behavioral links were identified for 20 language-age matched…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Autism, Children, Developmental Delays
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Cassidy, Kimberly Wright; Werner, Rebecca Stetson; Rourke, Mary; Zubernis, Lynn S.; Balaraman, Geetha – Social Development, 2003
Investigated the relationship between psychological understanding and positive social behavior in preschool children. Found that both mental state understanding and emotion understanding were positively related to teacher ratings of social skills, behavioral observers' global ratings of social skills, and peer popularity. When language ability was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Deception, Interpersonal Competence, Language Skills