The Costs and Benefits of Co ‐Rumination
AbstractA common belief is that talking about problems makes us feel better. In fact, seeking social support is related to well-being. However, if taken to a perseverative extreme, talking about problems can become problematic. The construct ofco-rumination was developed to address this idea. Co-rumination refers to talking excessively about problems and is characterized by rehashing problems, speculating about problems, and dwelling on negative feelings. Co-rumination is typically studied in children ’s and adolescents’ friendships and has adjustment trade-offs. Like rumination, co-rumination is associated with intern...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Amanda J. Rose Tags: Article Source Type: research
The Emergence of a Brain Network for Numerical Thinking
AbstractEducated adults and children engage a network of frontal and parietal brain regions for numerical thinking. Recent studies document some prominent changes as this network emerges over development, including a unilateral right to bilateral shift in number-selective parietal brain activity, a strengthening of intra- and interhemispheric parietal connections, reduced engagement of prefrontal regions, and decoupling between prefrontal and parietal regions. Based on these findings, it appears that right parietal regions form an innate or early-emerging basis for representing numerical magnitudes, whereas left parietal r...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Daniel C. Hyde Tags: Article Source Type: research
Cultural Pathways and Outcomes of Autobiographical Memory Development
AbstractThe development of autobiographical memory is a culturally constructive process in which children learn to remember and share their personal experiences in culture-specific ways. In this article, I present a theoretical model that situates children ’s independent recall and joint reminiscing with parents in the cultural context. Built on cross-cultural research, the model specifies various pathways—self-goals, language, emotion knowledge, and perceptual styles—through which culture shapes autobiographical memory development. The model al so demonstrates the role of culture in moderating the psychosocial outco...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Qi Wang Tags: Article Source Type: research
Cultural Moderation of the Effects of Parenting: Answered and Unanswered Questions
AbstractIn this article, I address the cultural moderation of the links between parenting and children's adjustment, and highlight avenues for research. First, I address whether cultural moderation effects occur. I review an inconsistent pattern of results, suggesting that cultural moderation effects are not robust in nature and raising the need to systematically uncover their parameters. Then, I consider the underlying mechanism of cultural moderation effects. Researchers agree that such effects stem from differential meanings of the same parenting behavior across cultures, but we still need direct evidence of how meaning...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Maayan Davidov Tags: Article Source Type: research
Being in Tune With Your Body: The Emergence of Interoceptive Processing Through Caregiver –Infant Feeding Interactions
AbstractInteroception —the ability to perceive and respond to internal bodily sensations—is fundamental for the continuous regulation of physiological processes. Recently, it has been suggested that because infants depend completely on their caregivers for survival, the development of interoceptive processing emerges as a result of early dyadic interactions, and relies on caregivers’ ability to respond to and meet infants’ physiological needs. In this article, I examine how both caregivers’ and infants’ own characteristics contribute to the emergence and development of infants’ interoceptive processin g. In p...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Maria Laura Filippetti Tags: Article Source Type: research
How Bilingualism Informs Theory of Mind Development
AbstractThe possibility and nature of bilingual advantage for theory of mind (ToM), that is, young bilingual children outperforming their monolingual peers, have been discussed increasingly since the first research on the topic was published in 2003. Because accumulating evidence demonstrates a ToM advantage for bilingual individuals, in this article, we focus on how this advantage arises. We consider how current theoretical positions, includingexecutive function,metalinguistic awareness, andsociolinguistic awareness accounts, explain such an advantage in young bilingual children. These theoretical accounts receive some, b...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Chi ‐Lin Yu,
Ioulia Kovelman,
Henry M. Wellman Tags: Article Source Type: research
The Implications of Polysemy for Theories of Word Learning
AbstractWord learning is typically studied as a problem in which children need to learn a single meaning for a new word. And by most theories, children ’s learning is itself guided by the assumption that a new word will have only one meaning. However, the majority of words in languages are polysemous, carrying multiple related and distinct meanings. Here, we consider the implications of this disjuncture. As we review, current theories predict tha t children should struggle to learn polysemous words. And yet research shows that young children readily learn multiple meanings for words and represent them in qualitatively si...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 3, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Mahesh Srinivasan,
Hugh Rabagliati Tags: Article Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Toward a Precision Science of Word Learning: Understanding Individual Vocabulary Pathways
AbstractToddlers vary widely in the rate at which they develop vocabulary. This variation predicts later language development and school success at the group level; however, we cannot determine which children with slower vocabulary development in the second year will continue to have difficulty. In this article, I argue that this is because we lack theoretical understanding of how multiple processes operate as a system to create individual children ’s pathways to word learning. I discuss the difficulties children face when learning even a single concrete noun, the multiple general cognitive processes that support word le...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Larissa K. Samuelson Tags: Article Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Tags: Issue Information Source Type: research
Toward a Precision Science of Word Learning: Understanding Individual Vocabulary Pathways
AbstractToddlers vary widely in the rate at which they develop vocabulary. This variation predicts later language development and school success at the group level; however, we cannot determine which children with slower vocabulary development in the second year will continue to have difficulty. In this article, I argue that this is because we lack theoretical understanding of how multiple processes operate as a system to create individual children ’s pathways to word learning. I discuss the difficulties children face when learning even a single concrete noun, the multiple general cognitive processes that support word le...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 10, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Larissa K. Samuelson Tags: Article Source Type: research
Love and Truth: What Really Matters for Children Born Through Third ‐Party Assisted Reproduction
AbstractEver since the birth of the first baby born through in vitro fertilization in 1978, advances in reproductive technologies have raised new concerns about the outcomes for children. In this article, I summarize research on children born through assisted reproduction involving a third party, that is, children born through egg donation, sperm donation, and surrogacy, with particular attention to the findings of a longitudinal study of children born to heterosexual couples in the United Kingdom. The assisted reproduction families generally showed high levels of family functioning and children's adjustment from early chi...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 5, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Susan Golombok Tags: Article Source Type: research
Evidence for an Early Novelty Orientation in Bilingual Learners
AbstractBilingual environments are more complex than monolingual environments. To adapt to this complexity, bilingual infants may navigate their environment in fundamentally different ways than monolingual infants. Drawing from visual, social, and linguistic processing, in this article, I present evidence to suggest that bilingual and monolingual learners demonstrate basic differences in the distribution of attention. Across these areas, bilingual learners appear to orient to novel information over familiar information, more so than monolingual learners. Attending more broadly within one ’s environment may support flexib...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - April 25, 2021 Category: Child Development Authors: Leher Singh Tags: Article Source Type: research
