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Nguyen, Simone P. – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Evaluative food categories are value-laden assessments, which reflect the healthfulness and palatability of foods (e.g. healthy/unhealthy, yummy/yucky). In a series of three studies, this research examines how 3- to 4-year-old children (N?=?147) form evaluative food categories based on input from external sources of information. The results…
Descriptors: Information Sources, Food, Childhood Attitudes, Information Seeking
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Kristen, Susanne; Sodian, Beate; Licata, Maria; Thoermer, Claudia; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Infant and Child Development, 2012
Children's talk about the mind has been scarcely studied in non-English speakers. For this reason, this longitudinal study documents age-related changes in German-speaking children's internal state language. At 24, 30 and 36?months, children were administered general language tests and their internal state vocabulary levels were obtained via…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers
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Lindsey, Eric W.; Cremeens, Penny R.; Caldera, Yvonne M. – Infant and Child Development, 2010
This study examines the role that context plays in links between relative balance, or mutuality in parent-child interaction and children's social competence. Sixty-three toddlers and their parents were observed in a laboratory play session and caregiving activity (i.e. eating snack). Mutuality was operationalised as the relative balance in (a)…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Caregivers, Peer Relationship