Jennifer E Drake
Jennifer E Drake
Some young children are able to create stunningly realistic drawings resembling those of adult artists. What perceptual abilities underlie this talent? This study examined two candidate skills on which adult artists excel: the ability to se...
The role of pattern recognition in children's exact enumeration of small numbers [0.03%]
图案识别在儿童精确计算小数目中的作用
Brenda R J Jansen,Abe D Hofman,Marthe Straatemeier et al.
Brenda R J Jansen et al.
Enumeration can be accomplished by subitizing, counting, estimation, and combinations of these processes. We investigated whether the dissociation between subitizing and counting can be observed in 4- to 6-year-olds and studied whether the ...
Children's judgements and emotions about social exclusion based on weight [0.03%]
与体重相关的社交排斥的儿童判断和情绪研究
Christine Nguyen,Tina Malti
Christine Nguyen
This study examined children's judgements and emotions associated with weight-based social exclusion using an ethnically diverse sample of one hundred and seventeen 9- and 13-year-old children. Children were interviewed about three scenario...
To the letter: early readers trust print-based over oral instructions to guide their actions [0.03%]
从文字到行动：早期阅读者更倾向于信任基于印刷的文字而不是口头指令来指导其行为
Kathleen H Corriveau,Shiri Einav,Elizabeth J Robinson et al.
Kathleen H Corriveau et al.
Children have many opportunities to learn from others through oral and written sources. Recent evidence suggests that early readers place more trust in written over oral testimony when learning names for unfamiliar objects. Across three stu...
Sunae Kim,Paul L Harris
Sunae Kim
Kim and Harris (, J. Cogn. Dev.) showed that children selectively learned from an informant who produced apparently magical outcomes as compared to another informant who produced only ordinary outcomes in the domain of everyday physics. In ...
The effect of labour on ownership decisions in two cultures: developmental evidence from Japan and the United Kingdom [0.03%]
劳动对所有权决定的两种文化的影响：来自日本和英国的发展证据
Patricia Kanngiesser,Shoji Itakura,Bruce M Hood
Patricia Kanngiesser
Creative labour has an effect on children's and adults' ownership decisions in Western cultures. We investigated whether preschoolers and adults from an Eastern culture (Japan) would show a similar bias. In a first-party task (Experiment 1)...
Katherine E Twomey,Lauren Lush,Ruth Pearce et al.
Katherine E Twomey et al.
Research demonstrates that within-category visual variability facilitates noun learning; however, the effect of visual variability on verb learning is unknown. We habituated 24-month-old children to a novel verb paired with an animated star...
Executive functioning: developmental consequences on adolescents with histories of maltreatment [0.03%]
执行功能：虐待经历对青少年发展的后果
Mimi Kirke-Smith,Lucy Henry,David Messer
Mimi Kirke-Smith
Research suggests that children exposed to maltreatment have deficits in executive functioning (EF) but few studies have focused on the adolescent age group. We investigated whether maltreated adolescents had lower EF abilities compared to ...
Subjective social status and intergroup attitudes among ethnic majority and minority children in Portugal [0.03%]
葡萄牙多数族裔和少数族裔儿童主观社会地位与群体间态度的关系
Allard R Feddes,Maria-Benedicta Monteiro,Mariline G Justo
Allard R Feddes
A measure of subjective social status (SSS) was examined among high (White), and low (Black and Roma) ethnic status children in Portugal within a developmental design including 6-8-year-old and 9-12-year-old children. White children favoure...
Sunae Kim,Paul L Harris,Felix Warneken
Sunae Kim
The present research investigates how young children evaluate and reason about the disclosure of private information. Using story vignettes, children aged 4-5 and 7-8 years were asked to evaluate an individual who passed on information from...