Merrill-Palmer Quarterly articles from April 2002

Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from April 2002

Developmental and gender differences in preadolescents' judgments of the veracity of gossip.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Hypothetical vignettes were used to examine 384 preadolescents' understanding of gossip in varying circumstances. Children correctly labeled talk about nonpresent others as gossip and considered it inappropriate. Skepticism was higher for...

Parents' reactions to elementary school children's negative emotions: relations to social and emotional functioning at school.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... This study addressed the role of specific parenting practices in children's expression of emotion and social competence. The specific objective was to examine the relations of parents' reactions to children's negative emotions with children's...

Emergence of white-lie telling in children between 3 and 7 years of age.
April 1, 2002... White-lie-telling behavior in 3 to 7-years-olds was examined using a Reverse Rouge Task. Before children took a photograph of the experimenter, the experimenter asked, "Do I look okay for the photo?" In the experimental condition, the...

Does parental mood or efficacy mediate the influence of environmental chaos upon parenting behavior?(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Using repeated observational and questionnaire data from 57 infants and their parents, lower parental efficacy perceptions and higher parental negative mood states were evaluated as potential mediators to explain the adverse influence of...

Mother-child joint writing and storybook reading: relations with literacy among low SES kindergartners.(Statistical Data Included)
April 1, 2002... Maternal mediation in joint writing was compared to storybook reading in terms of their relations with emergent literacy among kindergartners in a low Socioeconomic Status population. Joint writing was examined by dyadic writing. Storybook...