Mapping Young Minds: Adapting and Validating a Brief Big Five Inventory for Chinese Children in Upper Elementary School

This paper describes the adaptation and validation of a brief Big Five Inventory for upper elementary school children in China. Two independent samples, comprising 1884 and 2245 children from Grade 4...

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Hostile Attribution Biases and Evaluation of Vocally Enacted Responses to Peer Provocation in Early Adolescents

Hostile Attribution Bias (HAB) is the tendency to perceive ambiguous social information as threatening. The social information processing (SIP) model provides a theoretical framework for determining ....

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Can You Make Me Laugh? Toddlers’ and Parents’ Shared Positive Expressions in Playful Interactions

Laughter and smiling are frequently experienced in social settings, yet more research is required to delineate their development and dynamics. We investigated toddlers’ and parents’ shared positive e...

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Temperament, Parenting, and Trajectories of Anxious and Regulated Shyness in Chinese Children: A 4‐Year Longitudinal Study

Anxious shyness refers to social inhibition and wariness toward familiar peers or authority figures, possibly due to concerns about negative social evaluation. In contrast, regulated shyness is chara...

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'Harmful gender stereotypes' in children being shaped by popular animated films

Popular animated films could be shaping harmful gender stereotypes in films, according to new research from Abertay University.

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Mr Predator and Mrs Prey: Gender Stereotypes in Children's Films Correlate With Explicit and Implicit Gender Stereotyping

Children acquire gender stereotypes at a young age and these subsequently influence cognition and behavior. Stereotypes may be learned through a child's direct observation of gender differences as we...

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Rejection or Tolerance of Bullies: The Roles of Descriptive, Injunctive, and Popularity Norms

Using data from a large sample of students (N = 1373; 40% girls; Mage = 14 years) from 54 classrooms, this study examines how multiple coexisting classroom norms—specifically, descriptive, injunctive...

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Differential Susceptibility to Friendship Quality: The Role of Need for Approval

Friendships assume a salient role in well-being during mid-adolescence. This research examined (a) how friendship quality (stressful vs. supportive) is differentially associated with mid-adolescents’....

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How Should We Treat Farmed Animals? Adolescents Are More Speciesist Than Adults

Adults engage in psychological processes (including species-based categorisation and post-hoc reasoning) that result in ascribing high moral value to some animals while eating others. Do adolescents ...

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Children Find Others’ Misfortune Funnier Than Adults

This study investigated the perceived funniness of misfortune in children and adults, examining the role of the misfortune victims’ facial expressions. Participants included 100 psychology undergradu...

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Children Find Others’ Misfortune Funnier Than Adults

This study investigated the perceived funniness of misfortune in children and adults, examining the role of the misfortune victims’ facial expressions. Participants included 100 psychology undergradu....

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Young Children Use Direct and Indirect Evidence in Their Inferential Reasoning

To reach rational conclusions, we often draw inferences about the evidence that supports one solution over another. This evidence can be direct and indicate why one option is correct, or indirect and...

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Empathy as a Risky Strength: Associations With Parent and Child Depressive Symptoms in Middle Childhood

Healthy human relationships incorporate empathy; yet empathy may sometimes be a risky strength. Here we examine whether links between parent and child depressive symptoms are moderated by child empat...

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Children's Theory of Mind and Family Socioeconomic Status: What Can Different Approaches and Contexts Tell Us About the Same Construct?

Children's theory of mind (ToM) is a crucial milestone in early childhood, with implications for prosocial behaviours and cognitive skills in later years. Therefore, it is important to characterise c...

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Chinese Parents’ Understanding and Socialization of Gratitude

Extant research on parents’ understanding of gratitude and the socialization of gratitude in children has primarily been conducted in Western cultural contexts. To address this gap, this interview-ba...

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Does Children's Developing Understanding of Linguistic Register Impact Their Social Preferences?

People use different communication patterns based on the context and who they are addressing. These differences, known as linguistic register, are common across human speech and recognized early in d...

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Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses Reveal no Gender Difference in Neonatal Social Perception

Women score higher than men on measures of social cognition such as empathy and reading non-verbal cues. How early does this gender difference emerge? Systematic review and meta-analyses were used to....

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Repeated Transgressions Promote Costly Third‐Party Punishment in 6‐Year‐Olds

Individuals across cultures believe repeat offenders deserve greater punishment than first-time offenders, which is also widely accepted in today's judicial system. Although previous studies indicate...

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Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

Recommendations for sharing network data and materials

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