Developing Thinking and Understanding in Young Children presents a comprehensive and accessible overview of contemporary theory and research about young children's …
There is an emerging concern that modern technology‐saturated environments, particularly computer games, are inhibiting the development of children's empathic behaviour and social …
Two studies investigated 5‐to 10‐year‐olds'(N= 194) positivity bias when forecasting the future. Children from two geographic locations (mostly Caucasian, higher income college …
We examined an advanced form of emotion understanding in 4-to 10-year-olds and adults (N= 264): Awareness that people's minds generalize from past emotional episodes to bias …
Four‐to 10‐year‐olds and adults (N= 205) responded to vignettes involving three individuals with different expectations (high, low, and no) for a future event. Participants judged …
AC Brandone, W Stout - Child Development, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As they learn to navigate the social world, children construct frameworks to interpret others' behavior. The present studies examined two such frameworks: a mentalistic framework …
AM Spruijt, TB Ziermans, MC Dekker… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigated whether parents can be educated to alter parent-child interactions and whether this can improve children's reasoning abilities. Parents of four-to eight-year …
We examined developmental differences and sources of variability in trait reasoning. Four-to 10-year-olds and adults (N= 198) rated how mean or nice “medium-mean” and “medium …
KH Lagattuta, HJ Kramer - Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Despite remarkable achievements in children's understanding of their own and others' minds by the age of five years, there is still much more to learn to be a competent …