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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from January 2000
Extracting Truthful Information From Lies: Emergence of the Expression-Representation Distinction.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... In three experiments the understanding was studied that a statement's surface meaning may differ from its actual meaning, which is determined by a speaker's intentional states. Children (ages 3-5) were informed of a speaker's deceptive intent,...
Children's Understanding of the Animacy Constraint on Pretense.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... There is controversy over how well children understand pretense. One possibility is that for young children, pretense is not a mental state but is merely an external manifestation. If so, young children would think inanimates can pretend,...
Rejected Children and Their Friends: A Shared Evaluation of Friendship Quality?(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Past research of the link between sociometric status and friendship quality has been focused only on the focal children's perceptions. Children's perceptions, however, may differ from those of their friends. In a sample of 369 children (second...
Children's Evaluations of Peer Group Entry and Limited Resource Situations.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Children (ages 8 and 11) were studied as evaluators of peer group entry and limited resources. They evaluated two focal peers portrayed as either best friends, acquaintances, or enemies, in terms of attributions of intentions and behavior...
Middle Adolescents' Dating Pathways and Psychosocial Adjustment.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Interrelationships were studied between dating patterns (i.e., steady relationship, casual dating with multiple partners, single casual partner, or no dating) and trajectories of psychosocial functioning over a 1-year interval in a sample of...
Conversational Styles of Mothers and Their Preadolescent and Middle Adolescent Daughters.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Conversational styles of mothers and their preadolescent and middle adolescent daughters were examined and compared with the styles that mothers use with their friends. Middle-class Caucasian women (12 mothers of 8- to 10-year-olds; 12 mothers...
Developmental Differences in Children's Conceptions of Parental Control: "They Love Me, But They Make Me Feel Incompetent".(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... The possibility was examined that as children progress through elementary school, their conceptions of parental control change. Elementary-school children's conceptions of parental control in terms of helping, monitoring, decision making, and...
Mothers' and Teachers' Home and School Rules: Young Children's Conceptions of Authority in Context.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Samples of 95 preschoolers, first graders, and third graders responded to questions whereby one authority (mother or teacher) permitted an act (moral or conventional) to occur across contexts (home and school) and the other authority prohibited...
Infant Imitation of Peer and Adult Models: Evidence for a Peer Model Advantage.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... The imitation behavior of 30 infants, ages 14 to 18 months, were studied using both peer and adult models in an elicited imitation paradigm. Infants watched either a peer or an adult model perform four 3-step sequences (i.e., put teddy to bed)....