The value of communal and intergenerational settings for studying social and emotional learning
AbstractIndigenous Latinx youth living in the United States are culturally diverse individuals whose experiences are often unrecognized. These diasporic youth identify, learn, and develop cultural strengths amid their upbringing outside their Native communities by engaging in integrated communal endeavors informed by Indigenous values. In this article, we present research on how interconnected aspects of diasporic Indigenous practices contribute to the social and emotional development of youth in middle childhood and adolescence. We focus on Indigenous familial and communal experiences that contribute to developmental proc...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - August 25, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Melissa Mesinas,
Saskias Casanova Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Building the Parent and Child Math Anxiety Network model from empirical evidence
AbstractMath achievement is one of the strongest predictors of academic success and career attainment. While research has focused on cognitive factors that relate to math achievement, a growing body of literature suggests that affective factors like math anxiety also relate to math achievement. The field of math anxiety has expanded to recognize that not only children's but also parents' math anxiety is related to math performance. Yet, specific mechanisms through which parents' math anxiety relates to children's math performance are not well explicated. In this article, we synthesize research on the relation between paren...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - July 23, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Can Carkoglu,
Sarah H. Eason,
David Purpura Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind
AbstractIn this article, I briefly review theories about the development of theory of mind, and then examine evidence for minimalism, the idea that infants initially understand only behaviors. To this end, I consider the need for a wide variety of species to predict the behaviors of other animals and that human infants are not unique in this regard. I also discuss evidence for infants' understanding of behaviors, including their good statistical learning skills and their rich exposure to patterns of behavior, which correlates with their acquisition of mental state vocabulary. Finally, I discuss evidence for how maternal me...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ted Ruffman Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Peer learning and cultural evolution
AbstractIn this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavioral norms. We show that instrumental imitation, contingent teaching, generative collaboration, and selective copying contribute to domain-specific transmission of knowledge between peers. Stages of development and characteristics inherent to the learner and model influence how and when children learn from each other. Peer learning is persistent across societies despite...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Sheina Lew ‐Levy,
Wouter Bos,
Kathleen Corriveau,
Natália Dutra,
Emma Flynn,
Eoin O'Sullivan,
Sarah Pope‐Caldwell,
Bruce Rawlings,
Marco Smolla,
Jing Xu,
Lara Wood Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Child Development Perspectives - May 24, 2023 Category: Child Development Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind
AbstractIn this article, I briefly review theories about the development of theory of mind, and then examine evidence for minimalism, the idea that infants initially understand only behaviors. To this end, I consider the need for a wide variety of species to predict the behaviors of other animals and that human infants are not unique in this regard. I also discuss evidence for infants' understanding of behaviors, including their good statistical learning skills and their rich exposure to patterns of behavior, which correlates with their acquisition of mental state vocabulary. Finally, I discuss evidence for how maternal me...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - April 16, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Ted Ruffman Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Peer learning and cultural evolution
AbstractIn this article, we integrate cultural evolutionary theory with empirical research from developmental psychology, cultural anthropology, and primatology to explore the role of peer learning in the development of complex instrumental skills and behavioral norms. We show that instrumental imitation, contingent teaching, generative collaboration, and selective copying contribute to domain-specific transmission of knowledge between peers. Stages of development and characteristics inherent to the learner and model influence how and when children learn from each other. Peer learning is persistent across societies despite...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - April 15, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Sheina Lew ‐Levy,
Wouter Bos,
Kathleen Corriveau,
Natália Dutra,
Emma Flynn,
Eoin O'Sullivan,
Sarah Pope‐Caldwell,
Bruce Rawlings,
Marco Smolla,
Jing Xu,
Lara Wood Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Populism in youth: Do experiences in school matter?
AbstractMany view populist tendencies among youth with concern because adolescence is a formative period for political development. Of the many factors that shape young people's populist attitudes, experiences in school deserve attention since young people spend time in educational settings and schools share the goal of educating students to become informed and responsible citizens. However, the school context offers a wide variety of experiences, ranging from formal curricular to informal (climatic or participatory) characteristics. While empirical findings indicate that experiences in school affect the extent to which yo...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 28, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: Peter Noack,
Katharina Eckstein Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Media use and the development of racial attitudes among U.S. youth
AbstractBecause media provide a steady stream of models, they are especially poised to offer formative information about race. Yet although U.S. youth consume approximately 7 h of media daily, we know little about how media use contributes to their developing racial attitudes. Instead, research has focused mainly on adults, and studies of youth have developed along separate tracks for youth who are White and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color). In this arti cle, we first analyze the lack of attention to media effects on the development of racial attitudes, despite their assumed prominence as socializers. Then...
Source: Child Development Perspectives - March 18, 2023 Category: Child Development Authors: L. Monique Ward,
Enrica Bridgewater Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
