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Merrill-Palmer Quarterly archives from July 2002
Editorial.
July 1, 2002... A principal objective for Merrill-Palmer Quarterly during this editorial term is to maintain the standards of excellence established by the past Editor, Dr. Carolyn U. Shantz, and continue to advance the scope and quality of scholarship that...
Greater discomfort as a proximate cause of sex differences in competition.
July 1, 2002... The research was designed to examine whether females exhibit greater discomfort than males in competitive contexts, which could account for females' greater avoidance of direct competition. In Study 1, 40 groups of 4 same-sex children from...
Gender and preschoolers' perception of emotion.
July 1, 2002... A person's gender plays a role in the emotion children attribute to that person, even given unambiguous cues to a basic emotion. Eighty preschoolers (4 or 5 years of age) were asked to name the emotion of either a boy (Judd) or a girl (Suzy) in...
Do friends and nonfriends behave differently? A social relations analysis of children's behavior.
July 1, 2002... Children behave differently with friends and nonfriends. The goal of the current study was to examine these differences more closely with effect sizes and the Social Relations Model (SRM). One hundred twenty-three triads (target children,...
Young children's negative emotionality and social isolation: a latent growth curve analysis.
July 1, 2002... Recently there has been increasing interest in the role that emotionality plays in children's social functioning. In this paper, we examined changes in preschoolers' tendencies to play alone as a function of their dispositional negative...
Children's self-reports about anger regulation: direct and indirect links to social preference and aggression.
July 1, 2002... We assessed the direct relations between three aspects of self-reported anger regulation and peer-rated social preference and aggression as well as the indirect relations between these constructs as mediated by observed anger expression. The...