Category: Developmental psychology
Kindergarten SEL course improved social-emotional skills
Study evaluates a classroom-based social-emotional learning program for kindergarten children, showing significant improvements in assertiveness, self-control, cooperation, and reduced behavioral.
Non-social input supported autistic children’s cumulative syntactic learning
Study reveals autistic children learn syntax better from non-social computer input than from human speakers, suggesting intact learning mechanisms modulated by contextual factors.
Prior social feedback shaped later infant attention
Study shows how caregiver social feedback during infancy shapes infant attention patterns. Infrequent responses increase vigilance while frequent responses reduce it, with lasting effects across.
Responsive parenting and supportive environments aid early social skills
Literature review examining how parenting practices and social environments influence early childhood social skill development in informal education across diverse family and cultural contexts.
Smartphone dependency and reading activities relate to career maturity
Structural analysis of smartphone dependency and reading activities’ effects on career maturity through creative thinking and growth mindset in Korean high school students.
Independence norms were not globally linked to anxiety
Study of 70 countries over 33 years reveals cultural shifts toward independence linked to higher childhood anxiety in Western nations, while religious faith emphasis correlates with lower anxiety.
Parents’ invalidation profiles linked to lower child prosocial behavior
Study examines how parents’ childhood invalidation experiences affect children’s prosocial behavior through emotion coping styles, identifying three distinct family profiles in 837 Shanghai families.
Children’s token taking depends on relative status
Experimental study demonstrates children ages 4-8 calibrate resource-taking to socially instantiated relative status; gender differences emerge selectively under equal status conditions.
