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This Is Not What I Expected: The Impact of Prior Expectations on Children's and Adults' Preferences and Emotions
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Lara, Karen Hjortsvang; Kramer, Hannah J.; Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Developmental Psychology, 2021
We examined the influence of prior expectations on 4- to 10-year-olds' and adults' preferences and emotions following an undesirable outcome (N = 205; 49% female, 51% male; 6% Asian, 1% Black, 13% Hispanic/Latino [non-White], 57% White, 18% multiracial, and 5% another race/ethnicity; 75% with a college-educated parent). Participants attempted to…
Descriptors: Expectation, Preferences, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
Developmental Changes in Children's Understanding of Future Likelihood and Uncertainty
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat – Cognitive Development, 2011
Two measures assessed 4-10-year-olds' and adults' (N = 201) understanding of future likelihood and uncertainty. In one task, participants sequenced sets of event pictures varying by one physical dimension according to increasing future likelihood. In a separate task, participants rated characters' thoughts about the likelihood of future events,…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Children, Adults, Task Analysis
A New Measure for Assessing Executive Function across a Wide Age Range: Children and Adults Find "Happy-Sad" More Difficult than "Day-Night"
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Monsour, Michael – Developmental Science, 2011
Two experiments examined 4- to 11-year-olds' and adults' performance (N = 350) on two variants of a Stroop-like card task: the "day-night task" (say "day" when shown a moon and "night" when shown a sun) and a new "happy-sad task" (say "happy" for a sad face and "sad" for a happy face). Experiment 1 featured colored cartoon drawings. In Experiment…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Memory, Age Differences, Children
Young Children's Knowledge about the Influence of Thoughts on Emotions in Rule Situations
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Developmental Science, 2008
Four-year-olds, 5-year-olds, and adults (N = 48) listened to stories featuring characters that experienced one of four types of thoughts after deciding to transgress or comply with a rule: thoughts about desires, rules, future negative outcomes, or future punishment. Participants predicted and explained the characters' emotions. Results showed…
Descriptors: Young Children, Knowledge Level, Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes
Grownups Are Not Afraid of Scary Stuff, but Kids Are: Young Children's and Adults' Reasoning about Children's, Infants', and Adults' Fears
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Sayfan, Liat; Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Child Development, 2008
Three-, 5-, and 7-year-olds and adults (N = 64) listened to stories depicting 2 protagonists of different ages (infant and child or child and grownup) that encounter an entity that looks like a real (e.g., a snake) or an imaginary (e.g., a ghost) fear-inducing creature. Participants predicted and explained each protagonist's intensity of fear.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Infants, Fear, Age Differences
When You Shouldn't Do What You Want to Do: Young Children's Understanding of Desires, Rules, and Emotions
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Child Development, 2005
This research investigated 4- through 7-year-olds' and adults' (n=64) concepts about the emotional consequences of desire fulfillment versus desire inhibition in situations where people's desires conflict with prohibitive rules. Results revealed developmental increases in attributing positive or mixed emotions to story characters that make…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Age Differences, Young Children, Adults