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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
Do You Know How I Feel? Parents Underestimate Worry and Overestimate Optimism Compared to Child Self-Report
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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Sayfan, Liat; Bamford, Christi – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2012
Three studies assessed parent-child agreement in perceptions of children's everyday emotions in typically developing 4- to 11-year-old children. Study 1 (N = 228) and Study 2 (N = 195) focused on children's worry and anxiety. Study 3 (N = 90) examined children's optimism. Despite child and parent reporters providing internally consistent…
Descriptors: Children, Anxiety, Parents, Psychological Patterns
Helping the In-Group Feels Better: Children's Judgments and Emotion Attributions in Response to Prosocial Dilemmas
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Weller, Drika; Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Child Development, 2013
Five- to 13-year-old European American children ("N" = 76) predicted characters' decisions, emotions, and obligations in prosocial moral dilemmas. Across age, children judged that characters would feel more positive emotions helping an unfamiliar child from the racial in-group versus out-group (African American), happier ignoring the…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Whites, Prosocial Behavior, Moral Values
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
A New Look at Children's Understanding of Mind and Emotion: The Case of Prayer
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Bamford, Christi; Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Multiple methods were used to examine children's awareness of connections between emotion and prayer. Four-, 6-, and 8-year-olds and adults (N = 100) predicted whether people would pray when feeling different emotions, explained why characters in different situations decided to pray, and predicted whether characters' emotions would change after…
Descriptors: Children, College Students, Emotional Response, Comprehension