Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 2000

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 2000

Theory of Mind and Social Behavior: Causal Models Tested in a Longitudinal Study.
April 1, 2000... The aim of this study was to test two competing causal models concerning the relationship between children's social behaviors and theory of mind. Children between 3 and 4 years of age (n = 20) at the time of first testing were assessed three...

The Emergence of Beliefs About the Origins of Species in School-Age Children.
April 1, 2000... Two studies address children's emerging understanding of the origins of species. Elementary-school children, aged 5-12 years, were interviewed about their understanding of biological origins and of natural history (Ns = 49 in Study 1; 83, with...

Children's Initial Sentiments About Kindergarten: Is School Liking an Antecedent of Early Classroom Participation and Achievement?
April 1, 2000... As children enter kindergarten, the degree to which they like school may be an important determinant of their classroom participation, which in turn may impact their achievement. To explore this premise, data were gathered on school liking,...

Peer Clique Participation and Social Status in Preadolescence.
April 1, 2000... A method is described to identify peer cliques based on a consensus of group members; it provides quantitative measures of preadolescents' involvement in cliques and their association with peers who often get in trouble. Of primary interest was...

Display Rule Application in a Disappointing Situation and Children's Emotional Reactivity: Relations With Social Competence.
April 1, 2000... Associations among display rule use, children's negative emotional reactivity, and dimensions of elementary-school children's social competence were examined. In addition, the correspondence was studied between a self-report measure of negative...

Young Children's Conceptions of the Emotional Consequences of Varied Social Events.
April 1, 2000... Preschoolers' judgments were examined regarding the affect experienced by four participants (actor, recipient-observer, teacher, and reprimanded actor) in three social events (moral, conventional, and personal). Vignettes were presented to 42...

A Developmental Lexical Bias in the Interpretation of Discrepant Messages.
April 1, 2000... Children's interpretations of lexical and vocal cues to speaker affect, independently and in combination, were examined in four studies. In Experiments 1 and 2, 7- to 11-year-olds' judgments of lexical and paralinguistic cues were evaluated. In...

Ethnic Stereotypic Attitudes Among Israeli Children: Two Intervention Programs.
April 1, 2000... The study examined stereotypic attitudes of Israeli children toward Arab and Jewish children and their alteration with two intervention programs implemented in the classroom, one textual and the other audiovisual. Participants completed...