This study examined cross-cultural differences and similarities in children's moral understanding of individual- or collective-oriented lies truths. Seven-, 9-, 11-year-old Canadian Chinese children were read stories about story characters facing dilemmas whether to lie tell the truth help a group but harm an individual vice versa. Participants chose as if they character (Experiments 1 2) categorized evaluated characters' truthful untruthful statements 3 4). Most both cultures labeled truths...

The present study compared Chinese and Canadian children's moral evaluations of lie truth telling in situations involving pro‐ antisocial behaviors. Seven‐, 9‐, 11‐year‐old canadian children were presented 4 brief stories. Two stories involved a child who intentionally carried out good deed, the other2 bad deed. When story characters questioned by teacher as to had committed they either lied or told truth. Children asked evaluate characters' deeds their verbal statements. Overall, rated less...

This study examined Taiwan and Mainland Chinese Canadian children's concepts of, moral judgments about, lying. Participants aged 7, 9 11 years in those locations were read stories involving child characters doing something good or bad, telling a lie the truth about their own deed. They asked whether story character's verbal statement was truth, bad. Results show that most children of both cultures labelled as lie, truth. The major cultural difference lay evaluations truth‐ lie‐telling deed...

Does it matter if students are appropriately assigned to test accommodations? Using a randomized method, this study found that individual accommodations keyed their particular needs were significantly more efficacious for English language learners (ELLs) and little difference was reported between receiving incomplete or not recommended no whatsoever. A sample of third fourth grade ELLs in South Carolina (N = 272) randomly various types on mathematics assessment. Results indicated those who...

This paper explores the methodology of an ecological investigation aspects culture in interactional construction early childhood diverse global communities: Peru, Italy, Canada, Thailand, and United Kingdom. Regarding as a dynamic dimension child's socialisation, approach taken was to film 'day life' two‐and‐a‐half‐year‐old girl each location. The principal investigators viewed these five 'days' selected clips were made into compilation tape, be interrogated interpreted by local family....

Grounded in the examples of four impoverished, relocated youths (two Sesotho-speaking orphans South Africa and two Mexican immigrants Canada), we explore cultural factors as potential roots resilience. We triangulate rich qualitative findings (visual, dialogical, observational) to foreground particular, well acknowledge universal, explicating resilience transitional contexts. Resilience-promoting practices rely on adults function custodians protective values youth actively accept their roles...

The effective management of one's reputation is an important social skill, but little known about how it develops. This study seeks to bridge the gap by examining children communicate their own good deeds, among 7‐ 11‐year‐olds in both China and Canada (total N = 378). Participants cleaned a teacher's messy office her absence, responses were observed when teacher returned. Only Chinese showed age‐related increase modesty choosing falsely deny deeds. modest behavior was uniquely predicted...

This study examined cross-cultural differences in Chinese and Canadian adults’ concepts moral evaluations of lying truth-telling about prosocial antisocial behaviors. Although adults categorized lies concealing one’s deeds as lies, their counterparts did not. Also, rated deception such situations positively while rating the same negatively. These appear to reflect differential emphases on virtue modesty two cultures.

The present study examined Chinese children's moral evaluations of truths and lies about one's own pro-social acts. Children ages 7, 9, 11 were read vignettes in which a protagonist performs good deed is asked it by teacher, either front the class or private. In response, tells modest lie, highly valued culture, an immodest truth, violates cultural norms modesty. to identify whether protagonist's statement was truth evaluate how 'good' 'bad' was. children rated more positively than truths,...

The current study investigated the association of children's age, gender, ethnicity, Big Five personality traits, and self-efficacy with their academic cheating behaviors. Academic is a rampant problem that has been documented in adolescents adults for nearly century, but our understanding early development factors influencing still weak. Using Zoom, recruited children aged 4 to 12 years (N = 388), measured behaviors through six tasks simulating testing scenarios, assessed traits modified...

The cultural components of drawing allow one to consider it a symbolic form communication. behavioural and cognitive mechanisms involved in the transmission communications are situated an environment embedded cultural–historical features that should be taken into account, as they give rise variations socio‐cultural practices. aim present paper is provide evidence range different pathways through which acquisition emerges divergent contexts. This work stems from international Day Life (DITL)...

This cross-cultural study of the moral judgements Mainland Han-Chinese, Chinese-Canadian, and Euro-Canadian children aged seven to 11 examined evaluations narrative protagonists' modest lies self-promoting truthful statements in situations where they had done a good deed. The story characters thus either lied or told truth about prosocial act that committed. Chinese judged more positively boastful truths less than children. Chinese-Canadian rated immodest negatively did cultural differences...

The present study investigated whether young children are gullible and readily deceived by another's lies. Specifically, this examined believe a lie teller's statement when the violates their developing knowledge of distinction between reality fantasy. In first three experiments 3– to 6–year–olds ( N = 293) were presented with either story or live staged event in which an individual made implausible about misdeed (claiming that ghost jumped out book broke glass). A significant age effect was...

ABSTRACT This study employed multiple regression analysis to examine the relationship between global writing quality (holistic scores) and lower level analytic measures of writing, with a focus on cohesive indices. The subjects were 9-year-old English-speaking children who participated in either story free-writing condition or rewriting condition. results showed that both indices (type-token ratios, mean length utterances morphemes, composition length, etc.) each accounted for significant...

Chinese, Chinese-Canadian, and Euro-Canadian children 7, 9, 11 years of age were presented scenarios in which story characters either lied or told the truth to help themselves but harm a collective, vice versa. Children classified, evaluated, justified their evaluations truthful untruthful statements each scenario. Cultural differences emerged children’s especially apparent justifications. Chinese rated more positively that helped collective harmed an individual than versa, they showed...

In order to extend previous early years humor research into adolescence, the authors adapted an innovative ecological method such that at-risk adolescents could be filmed during entire waking day in their life. Community youth advocates nominated one 15-year-old female and 14-year-old male as doing well despite adverse circumstances. We examined types functions of these youths’ within social contexts. Their included joking, teasing, physical play, light tones, irony, sarcasm, mocking/parody....

Information is presented on farmer perceptions and concerns regarding key factors leading to poor persistence of sown pasture species. Forty-seven farmers from four regions viz. Northland (beef, sheep), Waikato (dairy), Taranaki (dairy) North Canterbury sheep, deer) were asked for their opinions the 'keys' 'killers' species; i.e., a decline in In all regions, grazing management was perceived be most important insect pests top killer Better industry dissemination existing information further...

This study investigated the relationship between parental reports of children's behavioral problems and their cheating behaviors on simulated academic tests, addressing a significant gap in understanding early childhood its potential links to broader issues. We hypothesized that problem would be predictive cheating. To test these hypotheses, children aged 4 12 years took part six unmonitored tests measured while parents completed Child Behavior Checklist Strengths Difficulties Questionnaire...

This paper details the challenges researchers with International Resilience Project encountered investigating resilience across cultures and contexts. The recounts experiences of global team who came together to develop a culturally embedded methodology study in fourteen communities on five continents. sought better understand phenomenon that process examine critically 'nuts bolts' how conduct cross-cultural social research. Specifically, incongruity between Western research paradigms...

Abstract Children employ different types of humor as they explore, interpret, and negotiate their environments. Whereas an appreciation verbal incongruity has been a hallmark older preschooler (e.g., McGhee, 1989), more recently, other violations expectations clowning also have identified ubiquitous during the first two years life Loizou, 2005; Reddy, 2001). We examined pragmatics one 30-month-old girl's humor, determined how it interactively harnessed cognitive, linguistic, socio-emotional...