Botdorf, Morgan Riggins, Tracy Dougherty, Lea R
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Developmental psychology
Research has indicated age-related improvements in relational binding, an important process of episodic memory, across development. However, little research has focused on individual differences in relational binding and factors contributing to this variation. Although differences may arise from various sources, early caregiving has been shown to i...
Ren, Kexin Gunderson, Elizabeth A
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Developmental psychology
Children and adults often have difficulties comparing decimal magnitudes. Although individuals attempt to reconcile decimals with prior whole-number and fraction knowledge, conceptual and procedural differences between decimals and prior knowledge of whole numbers and fractions can lead to incorrect strategies. The dynamic strategy choice account h...
Vertsberger, Dana Saudino, Kimberly J Avinun, Reut Abramson, Lior Knafo-Noam, Ariel
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Developmental psychology
Children's negative emotionality (NE) is frequently associated with parental negativity, but causal understanding of this relationship is limited. In addition, little is known about how genetic and environmental factors affect this relationship during middle childhood. We addressed these gaps by applying a quantitative genetic analysis to cross-lag...
Kanngiesser, Patricia Rossano, Federico Zeidler, Henriette Haun, Daniel Tomasello, Michael
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Developmental psychology
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 participate...
Lionetti, Francesca Aron, Elaine N Aron, Arthur Klein, Daniel N Pluess, Michael
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Developmental psychology
According to several developmental theories some children are more sensitive to the quality of their environment than others, but most supporting empirical evidence is based on relatively distal markers of hypothesized sensitivity. This study provides evidence for the validity of behaviorally observed Environmental Sensitivity as a moderator of par...
Valentino, Kristin Cummings, E Mark Borkowski, John Hibel, Leah C Lefever, Jennifer Lawson, Monica
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Developmental psychology
The current investigation reports the results of a randomized controlled trial of a brief, relational intervention for maltreated preschool-aged children and their mothers, called Reminiscing and Emotion Training (RET). RET facilitates elaborative and emotionally supportive parent-child communication, which is an essential component of the parent-c...
Martinez, Aleix M
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Developmental psychology
Computer vision algorithms have made tremendous advances in recent years. We now have algorithms that can detect and recognize objects, faces, and even facial actions in still images and video sequences. This is wonderful news for researchers that need to code facial articulations in large data sets of images and videos, because this task is time c...
Hoemann, Katie Xu, Fei Barrett, Lisa Feldman
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Developmental psychology
In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches-the theory of constructed emotion and rational constructivism-to introduce several novel hypotheses for understanding emotional development. We first discuss the hypothesis that emotion categories are abstract and conceptual, whose instances share a goal-based function in a particular con...
LoBue, Vanessa Adolph, Karen E
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Developmental psychology
This review challenges the traditional interpretation of infants' and young children's responses to three types of potentially "fear-inducing" stimuli-snakes and spiders, heights, and strangers. The traditional account is that these stimuli are the objects of infants' earliest developing fears. We present evidence against the traditional account, a...
Stern, Jessica A Botdorf, Morgan Cassidy, Jude Riggins, Tracy
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Developmental psychology
Empathic responding-the capacity to understand, resonate with, and respond sensitively to others' emotional experiences-is a complex human faculty that calls upon multiple social, emotional, and cognitive capacities and their underlying neural systems. Emerging evidence in adults has suggested that the hippocampus and its associated network may pla...
