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Kanngiesser, Patricia; Rossano, Federico; Zeidler, Henriette; Haun, Daniel; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Ownership is a cornerstone of many human societies and can be understood as a cooperative arrangement, where individuals refrain from taking each other's property. Owners can thus trust others to respect their property even in their absence. We investigated this principle in 5- to 7-year-olds (N = 152) from 4 diverse societies. Children…
Descriptors: Young Children, Ownership, Social Differences, Cooperation
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Putnick, Diane L.; Heslington, Marianne; Gini, Motti; Suwalsky, Joan T. D.; Venuti, Paola; de Falco, Simona; Giusti, Zeno; de Galperin, Celia Zingman – Developmental Psychology, 2008
This study used a cross-national framework to examine country, region, and gender differences in emotional availability (EA), a prominent index of mutual socioemotional adaptation in the parent-child dyad. Altogether 220 Argentine, Italian, and U.S. mothers and their daughters and sons from both rural and metropolitan areas took part in home…
Descriptors: Mothers, Daughters, Sons, Parent Child Relationship
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Gobet, Fernand; Campitelli, Guillermo – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The respective roles of the environment and innate talent have been a recurrent question for research into expertise. The authors investigated markers of talent, environment, and critical period for the acquisition of expert performance in chess. Argentinian chess players (N = 104), ranging from weak amateurs to grandmasters, completed a…
Descriptors: Handedness, Games, Drills (Practice), Group Activities