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Menendez, David; Hernandez, Iseli G.; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Children's understanding of death has been a topic of interest to researchers investigating the development of children's thinking and clinicians focusing on children's coping with the death of a loved one. Traditionally, researchers in cognitive development have mainly focused on death from a biological perspective. Current research suggests that…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Comprehension, Death
Gutiérrez, Isabel T.; Menendez, David; Jiang, Matthew J.; Hernandez, Iseli G.; Miller, Peggy; Rosengren, Karl S. – Grantee Submission, 2020
A mixed-method approach was used to explore parent and child perspectives on death in Mexico. Parents' and children's death-related experiences and understanding of death were examined. While all children in this sample displayed a biological understanding of death, older children were less likely to endorse that all living things die. Children…
Descriptors: Death, Mexicans, Parent Attitudes, Childrens Attitudes
Menendez, David; Jiang, Matthew J.; Edwards, Kaitlin M.; Rosengren, Karl S.; Alibali, Martha W. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Parents are typically in charge of purchasing the food that their children eat, but little is known about how parents decide if particular foods are healthy for their children and how their beliefs about nutrition influence their children's beliefs. In two studies, we investigated how parents of children ages 4 to 12 (N = 826) make decisions about…
Descriptors: Food, Parent Attitudes, Nutrition, Childrens Attitudes