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Ikeda, Shinnosuke – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2022
Objective: It has been observed that toddlers tend to miscategorize several negative emotions (e.g., sadness, anger). On the other hand, when we infer others' emotions, an approach-avoidance tendency toward facial expressions is perceived antecedently before linguistically categorizing them into emotion-word-based categories, such as sadness,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Nonverbal Communication, Affective Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Ban, Midori; Takahashi, Hideyuki – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study explored child behaviours that enable mothers to perceive their child's minds. We administered the Mind Perception Questionnaire to 216 women with children aged between 0 and 24 months and 221 working women without children. Participants responded with mind perceptions for various entities, including for their children (a 0--2-year-old…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Infants, Toddlers, Parent Attitudes
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Ban, Midori; Uchiyama, Ichiro – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
Pretend play is important for children's development. However, recent research indicates that, as preschool children age and get more proficient at pretend play, they prefer real objects. We examined whether toddlers prefer real objects when they are younger as well as when they are older and more proficient in pretend play situations. Forty-three…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Toys, Play, Toddlers
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Porter, Noriko; Tanabe, Keiko – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2023
The Japanese pedagogical strategy of mimamoru (watch and protect) has been identified by cross-culture researchers as an implicit component of early childhood education in Japan. However, little is known about the types of advice given by experts to parents regarding mimamoru. Accordingly, this study examined expert advice related to the mimamoru…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Periodicals, Child Rearing, Infants
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Daimei Sasayama; Tomonori Owa; Tetsuya Kudo; Wakako Kaneko; Mizuho Makita; Rie Kuge; Ken Shiraishi; Tetsuo Nomiyama; Shinsuke Washizuka; Hideo Honda – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2024
Attention deficit/hyperactivity behaviors in children are often unnoticed until they reach school age; however, evidence suggests that attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tends to develop at an earlier age. Recent studies also indicate that perinatal maternal mental health is associated with ADHD symptoms in offspring. This study…
Descriptors: Mothers, Birth, Depression (Psychology), Stress Variables
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Okumura, Yuko; Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; Kobayashi, Tessei; Ma, Michelle; Kayama, Yuhko – Language Learning and Development, 2023
In successful communication, it is critical to have the ability to identify what a speaker is referring to from previously mentioned information. This ability requires the identification of the topic initially introduced by lexical forms and its continuity in discourse expressed by anaphora such as null and pronominal forms in the subsequent…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Sentence Structure, Japanese, Language Acquisition
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Zhan, Ying – First Language, 2021
This study examines the role of agency in a young trilingual child's language choice in interaction with her Mandarin-speaking grandparents. The child was born in Japan to a Chinese mother and a Japanese father. English is used as a lingua franca in the family. The study demonstrates how the child asserts her agency to negotiate the decisions and…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Personal Autonomy, Multilingualism, Language Usage