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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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Wang, Qi; Leichtman, Michelle D. – Child Development, 2000
Examined social, emotional, and cognitive characteristics of American and Chinese 6-year-olds' narratives. Found that, compared to American children, Chinese children showed greater orientation toward social engagement, greater concern with moral correctness, greater concern with authority, a less autonomous orientation, more expressions of…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies