Interested in measuring Big Five personality traits in upper-elementary students? Qingqing Du and colleagues adapted and validated a brief questionnaire among Chinese children with proved reliability and validity. Out now in our Methods Articles section onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

In a new paper, Payton Nault and Michele Morningstar demonstrate that hat hostile attribution bias is linked to youth’s evaluation of tone of voice when selecting responses to peer provocation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anja Game and colleagues ask “Can You Make Me Laugh?” and show how toddlers and parents coordinate smiles and laughter during play. Smiling and laughter of both interaction partners influences the amount, intensity and timing of shared positive expressions. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Publication alert! A 4-year longitudinal study by Xiyuan Xu and Lijn Zhang illustrates the complex interplay between temperament and culture in the development and differentiation of shyness in childhood. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Children’s animated films inaccurately and consistently portray predators as male and prey as female. Young children learn and maintain these gender stereotypes into adulthood.   See thread by @larawood.bsky.social or read the whole paper onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New paper out by Hye-Young Yun, showing that coexisting classroom norms independently and interactively shape peers’ rejection and tolerance of bullying behavior. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Social Development (a peer-reviewed journal specializing in developmental psychology; focusing on the developmental processes during childhood & adolescence, offering insights into how individuals grow & change over time) has moved to Bluesky (657 followers) Bluesky: @socialdevelopment.bsky.social

Just out: New study by Clapham and colleagues reveals associations between adolescent friendship quality and social behavior differ by gender and levels of need for approval. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

So much cool work out in SoDe, including a super interesting study by lmcguire.bsky.social and nadirafaber.bsky.social who show that adolescents are more speciesist than adults and believe that farmed animals ought to be treated less well than adults do. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Excited that Ger et al.’s paper is out. Based on picture categories, they find that children find others’ misfortune funnier than adults. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#HURRAH! 🐧 Ebru Ger and @mirellamanfredi.bsky.social's time together in our working group resulted in a very nice study on the #development of #humour: Children Find Others’ Misfortune Funnier Than Adults @socialdevelopment.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper alert! Hartwell and colleagues show that young children can adjust their reasoning ‘in the moment’ and adapt to new evidence they receive. They can use indirect evidence to make inferences that inform their decision-making. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this paper by Planalp and colleagues who show that empathy, while essential in human relationships, can be a risky strength, as it may lead to personal distress and higher depressive risk. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New work by Morales showing that family SES shapes children's ToM via educational stimulation and maternal mental talk during free play. Children's ToM varies by context and assessment method; storytelling elicits richer mental talk than free play. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Happy to share this new paper by Qinglu Wu et al. They found that Chinese parents perceive gratitude as multifaceted, including gratitude toward the motherland, benefactors, and family, with an emphasis on reciprocity and giving back to society. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just out in Social Development! Ambrish et al show that children use features of speech to determine who a speaker is addressing. Both mono- and bilingual children like people who they believed spoke “correctly”. @zoeliberman.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Wonderful new work from Eliot et al. who meta-analysed studies on gender differences in infant social perception. Whereas such differences are often claimed to be innately determined, the authors did did not find evidence for the first months of life. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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New paper alert! Research on children in Japan shows that 6-year-olds apply stricter punishment to repeat than 1st-time offender. This suggests that from the early stages of punitive behaviour development, earlier transgressions are taken into account. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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