Cruz, Jennifer E Emery, Robert E Turkheimer, Eric
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Developmental psychology
Research consistently links adolescents' and young adults' drinking with their peers' alcohol intake. In interpreting this correlation, 2 essential questions are often overlooked. First, which peers are more important, best friends or broader social networks? Second, do peers cause increased drinking, or do young people select friends whose drinkin...
Stringer, Kate Kerpelman, Jennifer Skorikov, Vladimir
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Developmental psychology
Preparing for an adult career and incorporating a career into one's identity is a key task during the transition to adulthood (Erikson, 1968), and completing developmental tasks is considered a major factor in adjustment (Havinghurst, 1972). Previous research has established associations between overall career preparation in high school and adjustm...
Young, Andrew G Alibali, Martha W Kalish, Charles W
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Developmental psychology
When children evaluate evidence and make causal inferences, they are sensitive to the social context in which data are generated. This study investigated whether children learn more from evidence generated by an agent who agrees with them or from one who disagrees with them. Children in two age groups (5- and 6-year-olds and 9- and 10-year-olds) ob...
Kaplan, Jack S
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Developmental psychology
There has been a vigorous debate for decades concerning the heritability of intelligence. In recent years, the debate has been focused on whether the components of IQ variability change with age and on separating environmental effects into shared and unshared components. Citing evidence from adoption studies, studies comparing identical and fratern...
Gunderson, Elizabeth A Ramirez, Gerardo Beilock, Sian L Levine, Susan C
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Developmental psychology
Spatial skill is highly related to success in math and science (e.g., Casey, Nuttall, Pezaris, & Benbow, 1995). However, little work has investigated the cognitive pathways by which the relation between spatial skill and math achievement emerges. We hypothesized that spatial skill plays a crucial role in the development of numerical reasoning by he...
Dykas, Matthew J Woodhouse, Susan S Ehrlich, Katherine B Cassidy, Jude
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Developmental psychology
This study examined whether attachment, assessed using the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI; George, Kaplan, & Main, 1996) was linked to how adolescents reconstructed their memory for an initial interaction with an unfamiliar peer. Adolescents (N = 189, 62% female) completed a 10-min laboratory task with a student whom they did not know. Immediately...
Hishinuma, Earl S Chang, Janice Y McArdle, John J Hamagami, Fumiaki
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Developmental psychology
There is a relatively consistent negative relationship between adolescent depressive symptoms and educational achievement (e.g., grade point average [GPA]). However, the causal direction for this association is less certain due to the lack of longitudinal data with both indicators measured across at least 2 time periods and due to the lack of appli...
Doornwaard, Suzan M Branje, Susan Meeus, Wim H J ter Bogt, Tom F M
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Developmental psychology
This 5-wave longitudinal study, which included 1,313 Dutch adolescents, examined the development of peer crowd identification in relation to changes in problem behaviors. Adolescents from 2 age cohorts annually reported their identification with 7 peer crowds and their levels of internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Univariate latent g...
Periss, Virginia Blasi, Carlos Hernández Bjorklund, David F
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Developmental psychology
Perceptions of maturational status may play an important role in facilitating caretaking and resources toward children expressing them. Previous work has revealed evidence that cues of cognitive immaturity foster positive perceptions in adults toward young children at a time during their lives when they are most dependent on adult care. In the curr...
Beijersbergen, Mariëlle D Juffer, Femmie Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J van IJzendoorn, Marinus H
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Developmental psychology
In a longitudinal study with 125 early adopted adolescents, we examined continuity of attachment from infancy to adolescence and the role of parental sensitive support in explaining continuity or discontinuity of attachment. Assessments of maternal sensitive support and infant attachment (Strange Situation Procedure) were completed when infants wer...
