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Gingo, Matthew – Developmental Psychology, 2017
This research presented 8-, 10-, and 12-year-olds (N = 120) with hypothetical situations depicting comparably aged children engaging in defiance and deception to circumvent authorities' directives that they disagreed with. The nature of the situations varied in terms of domain (personal, moral, or prudential) and type of authority figure (parent…
Descriptors: Children, Preadolescents, Deception, Resistance (Psychology)
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Crone, Eveline A.; van der Molen, Maurits W. – Child Development, 2007
Age differences in decision making indicate that children fail to anticipate outcomes of their decisions. Using heart rate and skin conductance analyses, we tested whether developmental changes in decision making are associated with (a) a failure to process outcomes of decisions, or (b) a failure to anticipate future outcomes of decisions.…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Decision Making, Age Differences, Metabolism