We present evidence that evaluative information plays a major role in children's selective
social learning. We demonstrate that social learning patterns differ as a function of whether …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …