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Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children? A Training Study

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 14d

📣📣 Check out the paper by Serena Lecce et al. in JCD:

"Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children?"

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This study aimed to disentangle the impact of group conversations and mental state content on children’s theory of mind (ToM) during middle childhood by independently manipulating these two factors...

Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 23d

📣📣 Check out a recent work by Emily E. Stonehouse et al. in JCD:

"Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories"

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Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...

Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Sep 1

📣📣A recent work by Sydney Rossiter et al. in JCD:

Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?

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Preschoolers often make more optimal future-oriented decisions for another person than for themselves (i.e., other-over-self advantage). This advantage may reflect psychological distance from the s...

Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Aug 26

📣📣 A recent paper by Lesenia R. Fish & Arber Tasimi at JCD:

Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms

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Climate change poses an increasingly dangerous threat to human life, necessitating widespread behavior change to mitigate its effects. Thus, targeting children, whose habits and norms are still for...

How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Aug 20

📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD:
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions

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This study addresses the question of whether and how language influences mathematical cognition. Canadian students in Grades 4–7 (N = 348) were asked fraction multiplication questions in one of the...

Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Aug 11

📣📣 A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD:

Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland

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Nature connection (NC) in early childhood is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway to the development of lifelong environmental values and behaviors – a pathway that may hold growing relev...

More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jul 31

📣📣 A recent paper by Hande Ilgaz et al. in JCD:

"More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind"

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This study longitudinally investigated the relation between maternal mental state (MS) language when narrating a familiar wordless storybook and preschoolers’ theory of mind (ToM) abilities. Mother...

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jul 22

📣📣 A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD:

How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jul 15

📣📣 A recent article by Tal Waltzer et al.:
“What is Climate Change and What Can I Do About It?” A Survey and Educational Intervention with 10- to 13-Year-Olds

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“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jul 7

📣📣 Check out a recent article published in JCD by Shaocong Ma & Paul L. Harris “Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena

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Climate change poses global challenges to health and the economy, particularly affecting children’s well-being in developing countries. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence for the reality and ...

Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jun 30

📣📣 A recent paper by Haley Weaver & Jenny Saffran:
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type

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The role of function in toddlers’ object labeling has been debated for decades in developmental science. We aimed to clarify the relation between toddlers’ understanding of functions and words usin...

That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jun 25

📣📣 In a recent paper in JCD, Narae Ju et al. found that feedback improves 5-year-olds’ communicative perspective-taking.

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Effective communication requires participants to recognize what knowledge is shared and what knowledge remains unique to each person. Although research has examined the developmental emergence of t...

Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jun 18

📣📣 A recent paper by Mary C. Wagner et al. in JCD:

Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills

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Attending to numerical and spatial magnitude information is important for many math skills (e.g. measurement, proportional reasoning). The flexible attention to magnitudes (FAM) account proposes th...

Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills?

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jun 12

📣📣 A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues:

Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Children regularly encounter growing and decreasing patterns in songs, games, and daily routines. Over development, children learn to extend and abstract (i.e., recreate the pattern using different...

Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jun 9

📣📣 A recent paper by Nicole J. Stucke & Sabine Doebel in JCD:

Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task

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Recent studies suggest that girls as young as 4 years of age in the US are affected by negative gender-science stereotypes and persist less than boys on science tasks. However to date, no studies h...

Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · May 26

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD:

"Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties" by Juyoung Kim & Monica Tsethlikai

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As screen time (ST) constitutes an integral part of the daily lives of children today, parents, educators, and researchers have explored the associations of ST with children’s cognitive, behavioral...

Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · May 20

📣📣 A recent paper by Scott A. Adler & Thomas J. Baker in JCD:

Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity
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Speed of information processing (SIP) as determined by the response to spatial uncertainty is an important, perhaps limiting, factor for cognitive development. With adults, although their manual re...

Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · May 13

📣📣 A recent paper by Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Göksun:

Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children

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One of the earliest sources of mathematical input arises in dyadic parent–child interactions. However, the emphasis has been on parental input only in speech and how input varies across different e...

Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · May 7

📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence"

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Climate change comprises acute shocks and protracted hazards that threaten societies, communities, and families worldwide. Still, little work has investigated the potential impacts of climate chang...

The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · May 2

📣📣 A recent paper by Maria M. Arredondo and colleagues in JCD:

The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals

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This work investigated whether Mexican-American bilingual children and Mexican monolingual children (ages 4–6; N = 245) use Spanish varieties (Puerto Rican vs. Mexican) when making friendship judgm...

Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Apr 29

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD on "Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions" by Julie M. Schneider & Maria Maldonado

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The 30 million word gap refers to the disparity in early language exposure between low socioeconomic status (SES) children and their higher SES peers, a gap that is thought to negatively impact chi...

The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Apr 25

📣📣 Check out this commentary by Vikram Jaswal et al.:
"The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times"

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Published in Journal of Cognition and Development (Ahead of Print, 2025)

The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Apr 22

📣📣 A recent paper by Ebru Ger, Paul Ibbotson & Tilbe Göksun on "The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children."

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This study investigated the role of domain-general cognitive processes, specifically inhibitory control, verbal working memory (WM), and nonverbal reasoning, on children’s productive grammar skills...