Browsing by Subject "Child Behavior"
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Correlates of sedentary time and physical activity among preschool-aged children.
(Prev Chronic Dis, 2011-11)INTRODUCTION: Few studies have examined the correlates of objectively measured amounts of sedentary time and physical activity in young children. We evaluated the demographic, biological, behavioral, social, and environmental ... -
Developmental cascades of peer rejection, social information processing biases, and aggression during middle childhood.
(Dev Psychopathol, 2010-08)This study tested a developmental cascade model of peer rejection, social information processing (SIP), and aggression using data from 585 children assessed at 12 time points from kindergarten through Grade 3. Peer rejection ... -
Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens).
(J Comp Psychol, 2013-02)Humans make decisions about when and with whom to cooperate based on their reputations. People either learn about others by direct interaction or by observing third-party interactions or gossip. An important question is ... -
Hostile attributional bias and aggressive behavior in global context.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015-07-28)We tested a model that children's tendency to attribute hostile intent to others in response to provocation is a key psychological process that statistically accounts for individual differences in reactive aggressive behavior ... -
Mine or yours? Development of sharing in toddlers in relation to ownership understanding.
(Child Dev, 2013-05)To examine early developments in other-oriented resource sharing, fifty-one 18- and 24-month-old children were administered 6 tasks with toys or food that could be shared with an adult playmate who had none. On each task ... -
The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children
(PLoS ONE, 2014-03)Recent work has shown that young children can learn about preferences by observing the choices and emotional reactions of other people, but there is no unified account of how this learning occurs. We show that a rational ... -
Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts.
(Dev Psychol, 2013-11)Human cooperative communication involves both an informative intention that the recipient understands the content of the signal and also a (Gricean) communicative intention that the recipient recognizes that the speaker ...
