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Chernyak, Nadia; Kushnir, Tamar; Sullivan, Katherine M.; Wang, Qi – Cognitive Science, 2013
Recent work has shown that preschool-aged children and adults understand freedom of choice regardless of culture, but that adults across cultures differ in perceiving social obligations as constraints on action. To investigate the development of these cultural differences and universalities, we interviewed school-aged children (4-11) in Nepal and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Interviews
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Peterson, Carole; Wang, Qi; Hou, Yubo – Child Development, 2009
Recollection of early childhood experiences was investigated in 225 European Canadian and 133 Chinese children (ages 8, 11, and 14) by a memory fluency task that measured accessibility of multiple early memories and elicited the earliest memory. Younger children provided memories of events that occurred at earlier ages than older children.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Cultural Differences, Memory, Whites
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Han, Jessica Jungsook; Leichtman, Michelle D.; Wang, Qi – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Korean, Chinese, and American children were given identical free-narrative interviews about life events and were shown a narrated story. Children were then interviewed about the story. Compared to others, Americans provided more references to specific past events, more descriptives, more references to internal states, and more mentions of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries