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Sensitivity to Register Selection Errors amongst 5- and 7-Year-Old Children
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Ikeda, Ayaka; Kobayashi, Tessei; Itakura, Shoji – Developmental Psychology, 2019
We are expected to behave appropriately to suit social situations. One form of behavioral control is the selection of a linguistic register that is appropriate to the listener. Register selection errors can sometimes be interpreted as rude behavior and result in having a bad influence on the relationship with the listener and the evaluation by…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Interpersonal Communication, Pragmatics, Japanese
Japanese and American Children's Moral Evaluations of Reporting on Transgressions
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Chiu Loke, Ivy; Heyman, Gail D.; Itakura, Shoji; Toriyama, Rie; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2014
American and Japanese children's evaluations of the reporting of peers' transgressions to authority figures were investigated. Seven-, 9-, and 11-year-old children (N = 160) and adults (N = 62) were presented with vignettes and were asked to evaluate the decisions of child observers who reported their friend's either major or relatively minor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Moral Values, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
East-West Cultural Differences in Context-Sensitivity are Evident in Early Childhood
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Imada, Toshie; Carlson, Stephanie M.; Itakura, Shoji – Developmental Science, 2013
Accumulating evidence suggests that North Americans tend to focus on central objects whereas East Asians tend to pay more attention to contextual information in a visual scene. Although it is generally believed that such culturally divergent attention tendencies develop through socialization, existing evidence largely depends on adult samples.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Context Effect, Early Childhood Education, Evidence
When Do Children Exhibit a "Yes" Bias?
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Okanda, Mako; Itakura, Shoji – Child Development, 2010
This study investigated whether one hundred and thirty-five 3- to 6-year-old children exhibit a yes bias to various yes-no questions and whether their knowledge status affects the production of a yes bias. Three-year-olds exhibited a yes bias to all yes-no questions such as "preference-object" and "knowledge-object" questions pertaining to…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Exhibits, Bias, Age Differences
Development of Cultural Strategies of Attention in North American and Japanese Children
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Duffy, Sean; Toriyama, Rie; Itakura, Shoji; Kitayama, Shinobu – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009
Recent studies suggest that North American adults exhibit a focused strategy of attention that emphasizes focal information about objects, whereas Japanese adults exhibit a divided strategy of attention that emphasizes contextual information about objects. The current study investigated whether 4- and 5-, 6- to 8-, and 9- to 13-year-old North…
Descriptors: Socialization, Cultural Differences, North Americans, Attention
Social Transmission of Disinhibition in Young Children
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Moriguchi, Yusuke; Lee, Kang; Itakura, Shoji – Developmental Science, 2007
The present study examined whether young children's behaviors in the Dimensional Change Card Sorting task can be influenced by their observation of another person performing the task. Experiment 1 showed that after children watched an adult sorting cards according to one rule, although the children were instructed to sort the cards according to a…
Descriptors: Observation, Error Patterns, Young Children, Inhibition