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Mine, Yours, No One's: Children's Understanding of How Ownership Affects Object Use
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Nancekivell, Shaylene E.; Friedman, Ori – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Two experiments examined children's understanding of how ownership affects object use. In Experiment 1, 84 children age 4-6 were asked what a person was allowed to do with a human-made object that either belonged to the person or belonged to someone else. In Experiment 2, 44 children age 4-5 were asked what a person was allowed to do with a…
Descriptors: Young Children, Ownership, Childhood Attitudes, Social Cognition
Peers Increase Adolescent Risk Taking Even When the Probabilities of Negative Outcomes Are Known
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Smith, Ashley R.; Chein, Jason; Steinberg, Laurence – Developmental Psychology, 2014
The majority of adolescent risk taking occurs in the presence of peers, and recent research suggests that the presence of peers may alter how the potential rewards and costs of a decision are valuated or perceived. The current study further explores this notion by investigating how peer observation affects adolescent risk taking when the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adolescent Attitudes, Risk, Student Behavior
Preschoolers Use Common Ground in Their Justificatory Reasoning with Peers
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Köymen, Bahar; Mammen, Maria; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2016
In the context of joint decision-making, we investigated whether preschoolers alter the informativeness of their justifications depending on the common ground that they share with their partner. Pairs of 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 146) were introduced to a novel animal with unique characteristics (e.g., eating rocks). In the common ground condition,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Thinking Skills, Learning Processes, Social Cognition
Emotional Contrast or Compensation? How Support Reminders Influence the Pain of Acute Peer Disapproval in Preadolescents
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Thomaes, Sander; Sedikides, Constantine; Reijntjes, Albert; Brummelman, Eddie; Bushman, Brad J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
When children experience habitual peer difficulties, adults often remind them that many people care about them. How do such reminders of support impact children's emotional responses to acute experiences of peer disapproval? Intuitively, support reminders would exert compensatory effects attenuating the emotional impact of acute disapproval.…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship, Emotional Response
What Counts as By? Young Children's Use of Relative Distance to Judge Nearbyness
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Hund, Alycia M.; Plumert, Jodie M. – Developmental Psychology, 2007
The authors investigated how 3- and 4-year-old children and adults use relative distance to judge nearbyness. Participants judged whether several blocks were by a landmark. The absolute and relative distance of the blocks from the landmark varied. In Experiment 1, judgments of nearbyness decreased as the distance from the landmark increased, …
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Adults, Geographic Location, Educational Experiments
Multisensory Exploration and Object Individuation in Infancy
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Wilcox, Teresa; Woods, Rebecca; Chapa, Catherine; McCurry, Sarah – Developmental Psychology, 2007
Recent research indicates that by 4.5 months, infants use shape and size information as the basis for individuating objects but that it is not until 11.5 months that they use color information for this purpose. The present experiments investigated the extent to which infants' sensitivity to color information could be increased through select…
Descriptors: Object Permanence, Infants, Visual Environment, Visual Perception