Rachel L Gluck,Debra A Lynn,Barbara Dritschel et al.
Rachel L Gluck et al.
Interpretation biases, in which ambiguous information is interpreted negatively, have been hypothesized to place adolescent females at greater risk of developing anxiety and mood disorders than same-aged males. We tested the hypothesis that...
Are minority status children's cross-ethnic friendships beneficial in a multiethnic context? [0.03%]
多元文化背景下少数族裔儿童的跨种族友谊对其有益吗？
Sabahat C Bagci,Adam Rutland,Madoka Kumashiro et al.
Sabahat C Bagci et al.
Past research has demonstrated the negative impact of perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) on psychological well-being among children. Given research demonstrating the benefits of cross-ethnic friendship for children's intergroup attitudes...
Why do alternative ways of responding improve children's performance on tests of strategic reasoning? [0.03%]
为什么替代反应方式能提升儿童策略推理测验的表现？
Daniel J Carroll,Lily Fitzgibbon,Anna Critchley
Daniel J Carroll
Changing the way in which children respond significantly improves performance across a variety of cognitive domains. However, the basis for this response-mode effect is unknown. To address this issue, the current study tested 78 preschool c...
Mathieu Le Corre
Mathieu Le Corre
Many have proposed that the acquisition of the cardinal principle (CP) is a result of the discovery of the numerical significance of the order of the number words in the count list. However, this need not be the case. Indeed, the CP does no...
Valentina Cartei,Wind Cowles,Robin Banerjee et al.
Valentina Cartei et al.
Adult listeners are capable of identifying the gender of speakers as young as 4 years old from their voice. In the absence of a clear anatomical dimorphism in the dimensions of pre-pubertal boys' and girls' vocal apparatus, the observed gen...
Children's conceptions of physical events: explicit and tacit understanding of horizontal motion [0.03%]
儿童的物理事件观念：关于水平运动的明确理解与含蓄理解
Christine Howe,Joana Taylor Tavares,Amy Devine
Christine Howe
The conceptual understanding that children display when predicting physical events has been shown to be inferior to the understanding they display when recognizing whether events proceed naturally. This has often been attributed to differen...
Children's and adults' understanding of the impact of nutrition on biological and psychological processes [0.03%]
儿童和成人对营养影响身心过程的理解
Lakshmi Raman
Lakshmi Raman
Four studies examined children's and adults' beliefs about the impact of nutrition on growth and mood states. In Studies 1 and 2, 271 participants (preschoolers through adults) judged the impact of healthy and unhealthy nutrition on height ...
These pretzels are going to make me thirsty tomorrow: differential development of hot and cool episodic foresight in early childhood? [0.03%]
这些椒盐卷饼会让我明天口渴吗——儿童早期“热”和“冷”情景前瞻性思维的差异发展？
Caitlin E V Mahy,Julia Grass,Sarah Wagner et al.
Caitlin E V Mahy et al.
The current study examined 3- and 7-year-olds' performance on two types of episodic foresight tasks: A task that required 'cool' reasoning processes about the use of objects in future situations and a task that required 'hot' processes to i...
In beauty we trust: children prefer information from more attractive informants [0.03%]
以貌取人：儿童更愿意相信容貌更有吸引力的人所传递的信息
Igor Bascandziev,Paul L Harris
Igor Bascandziev
Preschool children were presented with slides on a computer screen showing a novel object, together with two informants, one with an attractive and one with a less attractive face. Children were asked which informant they would like to ask ...
Centrality in children's best friend networks: the role of social behaviour [0.03%]
社交行为在儿童亲密朋友网络中心性的形成中的作用
Lucy R Betts,James Stiller
Lucy R Betts
Centrality is an indicator of an individual's relative importance within a social group. Predictors of centrality in best friendship networks were examined in 146 children (70 boys and 76 girls, Mage = 9.95). Children completed measures of ...