Eugenics, Prejudice, and Psychological Research
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Source: Human Development - December 22, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Can Globalization Help in Reimagining the Developmental Sciences? Finding Balance between Global Science and Local Reality
Social changes and technological advancement have profoundly impacted the human condition, and the former world order has gradually become obsolete as domination and imperialism are no longer justifiable. In the social and developmental sciences, such a shift implies the expansion of theory, methods, and application to embrace diversity as a fundamental property of being human. However, a bulk of the research draws from limited samples and circumscribed methods, largely excluding culture from conversations about human development. There is urgent need to find balance between global science and local reality where social ju...
Source: Human Development - December 16, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Social Expectations, Violence and Social-Moral Knowledge: Considerations for Developmental Research
Violence associated with gangs known as maras in Honduras is an impetus for why people flee and migrate out of the country. Based on fieldwork with youth between the ages of 10 and 18 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, I discuss (a) that prevailing views of violence in developmental research need further elaboration in understanding the illicit and legal forms and functions of violence in a society that children and adolescents grow up in and (b) that a domain model of social-moral thinking offers more insight about violence and morality than a current model informing violence prevention in Honduras. Lastly, I conclude with a fe...
Source: Human Development - December 11, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Factors Facilitating Emotion Understanding in Infancy: Commentary on Ogren and Johnson
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Source: Human Development - November 3, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Factors Facilitating Early Emotion Understanding Development: Contributions to Individual Differences
Children ’s emotion understanding is crucial for healthy social and academic development. The behaviors influenced by emotion understanding in childhood have received much attention, but less focus has been placed on factors that may predict individual differences in emotion understanding, the principal is sue addressed in the current review. A more thorough understanding of the developmental underpinnings of this skill may allow for better prediction of emotion understanding, and for interventions to improve emotion understanding early in development. Here, we present theoretical arguments for the su bstantial roles of ...
Source: Human Development - November 2, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
What Is Gratitude? Ingratitude Provides the Answer
Current scholarship on “gratitude” has largely ignored its opposite – ingratitude. As a result, gratitude is no longer distinguishable from constructs such as appreciation and happiness. This was not the case over previous centuries – ingratitude was viewed as something monstrous, a failure to reciprocate would lo osen the bonds holding society together. The opposite, gratitude, was seen as a virtue. Reciprocity has come under attack because “obligation” has been understood in only one of two possible senses. The first relates to contracts and justice – one has a heteronomous obligation to pay off a deb t or ...
Source: Human Development - September 28, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Toward a Neo-Nietzschean Theory of Human Development
The 19th century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche placed great emphasis on the notion of becoming and although contemporary Nietzsche scholars have paid considerable attention to Nietzsche ’s psychology, little attention has been paid to Nietzsche’s notion of becoming as a theory of human development. This is not surprising given the aphoristic and unsystematic presentation of Nietzsche’s ideas. Drawing on his own familiarity with Nietzsche’s work, the author explores the lite rature on Nietzsche’s conception of becoming, placing particular emphasis on the notion of becoming what one is. In lieu of philosophical a...
Source: Human Development - September 17, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Making Sense of Infants ’ Differential Responses to Incongruity
Infants show strikingly different reactions to incongruity: looking or smiling. The former occurs in response to magical events and the latter to humorous events. We argue that these reactions depend largely on the respective experimental methodologies employed, including the popular violation of expectation (VOE) paradigm. Although both types of studies involve infants ’ reactions to incongruity, their literatures have yet to confront each other, and researchers in each domain are drawing strikingly different conclusions regarding infants’ understanding of the world. Here, we argue that infants are sensitive to and co...
Source: Human Development - September 17, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Ingratitude: Greatest of the Vices?
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Source: Human Development - September 16, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
What ’s in a Look? How Can We Best Measure Infants’ Response to Incongruity?
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Source: Human Development - September 14, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Hypotheses about Emotional Development in the Theory of Constructed Emotion: A Response to Developmental Perspectives on < b > < i > How Emotions Are Made < /i > < /b >
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Source: Human Development - September 8, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
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Source: Human Development - June 9, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Alexa, What Are You? Exploring Primary School Children ’s Ontological Perceptions of Digital Voice Assistants in Open Interactions
Today ’s children grow up in an environment that is increasingly characterized by digital voice assistants (DVAs), such as Alexa, Siri, or the Google Assistant. This paper argues that any attempt to investigate children’s interactions with, and perceptions of, DVAs should be based on the theoretical g rounds of an ontological framework that considers children’s genuine understanding of what it means to be human and what it means to be a machine. Based on focus groups and a gamified data collection design, our empirical inquiry applied qualitative methods to explore primary school children’s (n =27, age range: 6 –...
Source: Human Development - June 5, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Operationalizing Bronfenbrenner ’s PPCT Model in Researching Human Development: Commentary on Xia, Li, and Tudge
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Source: Human Development - May 29, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Operationalizing Urie Bronfenbrenner ’s Process-Person-Context-Time Model
Urie Bronfenbrenner spent much of his academic life designing and then refining what came to be known as the bioecological theory of human development. During this process, he came to a working operationalization of his theory – what he termed the process-person-context-time (PPCT) model. However, for all of the effort that he put into refining the theory, he provided very little information on how to apply the theory, or even the PPCT model, in research. In this paper we therefore suggest a way in which the theory can be operationalized more effectively, laying out the steps that we think should be followed. Specificall...
Source: Human Development - May 29, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
