Adamson, Lauren B Bakeman, Roger Suma, Katharine Robins, Diana L
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Developmental psychology
Joint engagement-the sharing of events during social interactions-is an important context for early learning. To date, sharing topics that are only heard has not been systematically documented. To describe the development of auditory joint engagement, 48 child-parent dyads were observed 5 times from 12 to 30 months during seminaturalistic play. Rea...
Goldman, Elizabeth J Wang, Su-Hua
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Developmental psychology
Past research has shown a discrepancy in young infants' use of height information in occlusion and containment events-a pattern typically accounted for by event categorization and rule learning. Broadening these theories, the present experiment examined the role of comparison in young infants' reasoning about physical events. We rotated a typical s...
Stengelin, Roman Hepach, Robert Haun, Daniel B M
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Developmental psychology
From a young age, children in Western, industrialized societies overimitate others' actions. However, the underlying motivation and cultural specificity of this behavior have remained unclear. Here, 3- to 8-year-old children (N = 125) from two rural Namibian populations (Hai||om and Ovambo) and one urban German population were tested in two version...
Park, Yoobin Johnson, Matthew D MacDonald, Geoff Impett, Emily A
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Developmental psychology
Attachment anxiety is a form of attachment insecurity characterized by chronic worries about rejection and need for reassurance. Given the critical role a sense of security plays in maintaining healthy relationships, individuals high in attachment anxiety tend to struggle in romantic relationships, which carries serious implications for their broad...
Hoffman, Adam J Agi, Abunya C Rivas-Drake, Deborah Jagers, Robert J
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Developmental psychology
Adolescence is a developmental period when youth are increasingly likely to turn to their peers for support, and it is also a time of increased salience and development of ethnic-racial identity (ERI). Ethnic-racial centrality, a dimension of ERI, could be a predictor in the development of peer support, as youth with a stronger self-concept on the ...
Mak, Hio Wa Russell, Michael A Lanza, Stephanie T Feinberg, Mark E Fosco, Gregory M
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Developmental psychology
Antisocial peer behavior and low parental knowledge of adolescents' activities are key interpersonal risk factors for adolescent substance use. However, how the magnitude of associations between these risk factors and substance use may vary across adolescence remains less well understood. The present study examined the age-varying associations of p...
Northrup, Jessie B Iverson, Jana M
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Developmental psychology
Early mother-infant coordinated interactions play a critical role in infant development. The present study describes the development of the dyadic coordination of vocalization and gaze behavior between mothers and infants over the first year of life. In addition to describing developmental trajectories of behavior, the study contributes to our unde...
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...
Ehm, Jan-Henning Hasselhorn, Marcus Schmiedek, Florian
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Developmental psychology
The association between academic self-concept and achievement is assumed to be reciprocal. Typically, the association is analyzed by variants of the classical cross-lagged panel model. Results with more recently developed methodological approaches, for example, the random intercept cross-lagged panel model, its continuous-time implementation, and t...
Sharifian, Neika Kraal, A Zarina Zaheed, Afsara B Sol, Ketlyne Zahodne, Laura B
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Developmental psychology
Prior research suggests that social relations may play a role in explaining individual differences in cognitive functioning in older adulthood. In particular, early life maternal relationship quality (MRQ) has been shown to be a strong predictor of later-life socioemotional outcomes and may also contribute to later-life cognitive outcomes. The curr...