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Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Developmental Risk Factors and Predictors of Treatment Response
(2016-07-26)Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the evidence-based treatment of choice for childhood anxiety disorders. Its blend of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies for anxiety management has more empirical support than ... -
Childhood Resistance to Influenza Mortality: Analysis in a Mouse Model
(2016-08-29)During the 1918 influenza pandemic, children experienced significantly lower mortality compared to adults, with the onset of puberty marking a transition to greater disease susceptibility. To explore the mechanisms that ... -
Children and adults successfully comprehend subject-only sentences online
(Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-01-17)In many offline studies, children show selectively better comprehension of sentences with the focus particle only when it modifies the object argument (Jane only ate an apple) than they do when it modifies the subject ... -
Children and Social Groups: A Developmental Analysis of Implicit Consistency in Hispanic Americans
(Taylor and Francis, 2007)We investigated the development of three aspects of implicit social cognition (self-esteem, group identity, and group attitude) and their interrelationships in Hispanic American children (ages 5 to 12) and adults. Hispanic ... -
The Children of the Desert and the Laws of the Sea: Austria, Great Britain, the Ottoman Empire, and the Mediterranean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
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Children's Literature Grows Up
(2015-05-05)Children’s Literature Grows Up proposes that there is a revolution occurring in contemporary children’s fiction that challenges the divide that has long existed between literature for children and literature for adults. ... -
Children's Norm Enforcement in Their Interactions With Peers
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)This study investigates how children negotiate social norms with peers. In Study 1, 48 pairs of 3- and 5-year-olds (N = 96) and in Study 2, 48 pairs of 5- and 7-year-olds (N = 96) were presented with sorting tasks with ... -
Children's Responses to Group-Based Inequalities: Perpetuation and Rectification
(Guilford Press, 2011)The current studies investigate whether, and under what conditions, children engage in system-perpetuating and system-attenuating behaviors when allocating resources to different social groups. In three studies, we presented ... -
Children's Understanding Of The Relationship Between Addition and Subtraction
(Elsevier, 2008)In learning mathematics, children must master fundamental logical relationships, including the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction. At the start of elementary school, children lack generalized understanding ... -
Children’s Books, Dolls, and the Performance of Race; or, The Possibility of Children’s Literature
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Children’s Developing Commitments to Joint Goals
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)This study investigated young children’s commitment to a joint goal by assessing whether peers in collaborative activities continue to collaborate until all received their rewards. Forty-eight 2.5- and 3.5-year-old children ... -
Children’s Expectations and Understanding of Kinship as a Social Category
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)In order to navigate the social world, children need to understand and make predictions about how people will interact with one another. Throughout most of human history, social groups have been prominently marked by kinship ... -
Children’s multiplicative transformations of discrete and continuous quantities
(Elsevier BV, 2009)Recent studies have documented an evolutionarily primitive, early emerging cognitive system for the mental representation of numerical quantity (the analog magnitude system). Studies with non-human primates, human infants, ... -
Children’s reasoning about distributive and retributive justice across development.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2016)Research on distributive justice indicates that preschool-age children take issues of equity and merit into account when distributing desirable items, but that they often prefer to see desirable items allocated equally in ... -
Children’s Use of Geometry for Reorientation
(Wiley, 2008)Research on navigation has shown that humans and laboratory animals recover their sense of orientation primarily by detecting geometric properties of large-scale surface layouts (e.g. room shape), but the reasons for the ... -
Chimeric Genes as a Source of Rapid Evolution in Drosophila melanogaster
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2011)Chimeric genes form through the combination of portions of existing coding sequences to create a new open reading frame. These new genes can create novel protein structures that are likely to serve as a strong source of ... -
Chimpanzee Alarm Call Production Meets Key Criteria for Intentionality
(Public Library of Science, 2013)Determining the intentionality of primate communication is critical to understanding the evolution of human language. Although intentional signalling has been claimed for some great ape gestural signals, comparable evidence ... -
Chimpanzee ethnography reveals unexpected cultural diversity
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-25)Human ethnographic knowledge covers hundreds of societies1-2, whereas chimpanzee ethnography encompasses at most 15 communities. Using termite fishing as a window into the richness of chimpanzee cultural diversity, here ... -
Chimpanzee Violence is a Serious Topic. A Response to Sussman and Marshack's Critique of Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
(Center for Global Nonkilling, 2010)Sussman and Marshack criticize Demonic Males as being wrong in its generalizations about chimpanzee behavior, and flawed in its theoretical interpretations. I show that studies of chimpanzees conducted since Demonic Males ... -
Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items
(The Royal Society, 2010)Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) sometimes help both humans and conspecifics in experimental situations in which immediate selfish benefits can be ruled out. However, in several experiments, chimpanzees have not provided food ...