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Heyman, Gail D.; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Children's reasoning about individuals' willingness to disclose their successes and failures was investigated among 194 6- to 11-year-olds in the United States and China. In Study 1, participants showed a valence-matching effect, in which they predicted that individuals would be more likely to disclose their performance to an audience of friends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
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Bersoff, David M.; Miller, Joan G. – Developmental Psychology, 1993
Examined the impact of contextual factors on adults' and children's tendencies to hold individuals accountable for moral and legal transgressions. Subjects were 180 adults and children in the United States and Mysore, India. Indians more frequently absolved individuals of moral accountability for breaches performed under emotional duress or by…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Children, Context Effect