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Direct linkAmanda C. Brandone; Wyntre Stout – Child Development, 2024
As they learn to navigate the social world, children construct frameworks to interpret others' behavior. The present studies examined two such frameworks: a mentalistic framework, which construes behavior as driven by internal mental states; and a normative framework, which presumes people act in accordance with social norms. Participants included…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Behavior Theories, Childrens Attitudes
Mengtian Xia; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Child Development, 2024
Children tend to overestimate their performance on a variety of tasks and activities. The present meta-analysis examines the specificity of this phenomenon across age, tasks, and more than five decades of historical time (1968-2021). Self-overestimation was operationalized as the ratio between children's prospective self-estimates of task…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Cognitive Ability, Performance
Elfriede R. Holstein; Maria Theobald; Leonie S. Weindorf; Garvin Brod – Child Development, 2025
We investigated the role of children's conflict monitoring skills in revising an intuitive scientific theory. Children aged 5 to 9 (N = 177; 53% girls, data collected in Germany from 2019-2023) completed computer-based tasks on water displacement, a concept prone to misconceptions. Children predicted which of two objects would displace more water…
Descriptors: Children, Conflict, Task Analysis, Foreign Countries
Mesman, Judi; de Bruijn, Ymke; van Veen, Daudi; Pektas, Fadime; Emmen, Rosanneke A. G. – Child Development, 2022
A prerequisite to anti-racist socialization in families is acknowledging ethnic-racial (power) differences, also known as color-consciousness. In a sample of 138 White Dutch families from the urban Western region of the Netherlands with children aged 6-10 years (53% girls), observations and questionnaires on maternal color-consciousness and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
Muradoglu, Melis; Cimpian, Andrei – Child Development, 2020
How do children reason about academic performance across development? A classic view suggests children's intuitive theories in this domain undergo qualitative changes. According to this view, older children and adults consider both effort and skill as sources of performance (i.e., a "performance = effort + skill" theory), but younger…
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Attitudes, Intuition, Beliefs
Elenbaas, Laura; Luken Raz, Katherine; Ackerman, Amanda; Kneeskern, Ellen – Child Development, 2022
This study investigated 3- to 11-year-old US children's (N = 348) perceptions of access to resources, social group preferences, and resource distribution decisions and reasoning when hypothetical peers differed in social class (poor or rich) and race (Black or White). Data were collected in 2019. The sample reflected the region where data were…
Descriptors: Children, Social Influences, Resource Allocation, Social Class
