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Lagattuta, Kristin Hansen; Wellman, Henry M. – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Examined whether the quality and content of everyday parent-child conversations about negative emotions differed from everyday talk about positive emotions. Found that children and parents talked about past emotions, causes of emotions, and connections between emotions and other mental states at higher rates during conversations about negative…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Caregiver Speech, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis