Recently added articles from The Journal of Genetic Psychology:
Biosocial influences on fraudulent behaviors.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A WEALTH OF BEHAVIORAL GENETIC RESEARCH has estimated genetic and environmental influences on a wide range of antisocial behaviors. The results of these studies have provided an impressive amount of empirical evidence revealing that all antisocial phenotypes are moderately to strongly ...
Bullying and victimization in adolescence: concurrent and stable roles and psychological health symptoms.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS, research on bullying has focused on the causes and extent of the phenomenon and has examined various factors that can influence the problem, such as personality features and cognitive, emotional, familial, and contextual factors. A controversial area of ...
Adolescents' and adults' internal models of conditional strategies for object conflict.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... RESEARCHERS OFTEN ACCEPT THAT children's past experiences in various social and emotional contexts are likely to have an effect on their future interactions. A vital question concerns the mechanism by which past experience carries over to present behavior. This is a difficult problem in ...
Is perceived motor competence a constraint in children's action planning?(BRIEF REPORT)(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... ONE OF THE INITIAL STEPS IN PLANNING reaching movements is to derive a perceptual estimate of the object's distance and location relative to the body. Although the research on children is limited, there are indications that, similar to adults, children exhibit the tendency to overestimate ...
Direct and indirect effects of birth order on personality and identity: support for the null hypothesis.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... A RESURGENCE OF INTEREST IN THE ROLE that birth order plays in personality development occurred with the publication of Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Creative Lives (Sulloway, 1996). Born to Rebel removed the theoretical underpinnings of birth-order effects from a ...
Discrepancies between parents' and children's attitudes toward TV advertising.(Report)
Jun 01, 2009; ... THERE IS AN INTERNATIONAL DEBATE ABOUT children's ability to comprehend and evaluate advertising (Chan & McNeal, 2004; McNeal, 1992; Valkenburg & Cantor, 2001) and the ethical aspects of the growing trend to consider children as a target group for commercial advertising. Many opponents of ...
Cultural in-group advantage: emotion recognition in African American and European American faces and voices.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... RESEARCHERS HAVE EXAMINED NONVERBAL social behavior since the days of Homer, who noted in the Iliad, "Pale with fear they stood without a word; but he knew what they felt" (trans. 1999). Recognizing nonverbal emotional expressions in others is a valuable social skill. Interpersonal ...
Intergenerational transmission of attachment in father-child dyads: the case of single parenthood.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... ONE OF THE MOST ROBUST FINDINGS of attachment research is the intergenerational transmission of attachment patterns. Researchers have consistently shown that the security of infants' attachment relationship with their mothers can reliably be predicted from mothers' state of mind with ...
Contribution of student and instructor relationships and attachment style to school completion.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... THE CONTRIBUTION OF ATTACHMENT THEORY to understanding healthy human functioning has been vital (Moore & Leung, 2002). Attachment is the emotional and social bonding between children and parents, and a determinant of relating patterns in adolescence and adulthood (Muris & Maas, 2004) ....
Socioemotional characteristics of elementary school children identified as exhibiting social leadership qualities.(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... RESEARCHERS HAVE EXAMINED THE EMERGENCE of leaders in social groups--one of the most prevalent social phenomena (Hogg, 2001)--mainly in adult populations (Bass, 1990). Hawley (1999) noted that leadership qualities reflect a developmental process and can be detected even in childhood ....
Development of children's understanding of cognitive activities.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... FROM EARLY CHILDHOOD THROUGH ADOLESCENCE, children's knowledge of cognitive functioning changes greatly. Knowledge about cognition is fundamental to many social and intellectual activities. During social interactions, assumptions about others' thoughts guide peoples' actions and frame ...
Music training and semantic clustering in college students.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH ON SKILLED MUSICIANS has become an increasingly popular approach for identifying general principles of information processing and neural plasticity (Zatorre, 2003). However, researchers' attempts to illuminate the effects of music education on nonmusical domains of ...
Gender differences in academic entitlement among college students.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... AT UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES ACROSS THE UNITED STATES, professors often encounter students who perceive themselves as entitled to an A in their classes. Students may exhibit this sense of entitlement in the form of arguing about a grade, being surprised with a subpar grade, or believing that ...
Short-term criminal pathways: type and seriousness of offense and recidivism.(Report)
Dec 01, 2008; ... JUVENILE DELINQUENCY DOES NOT TYPICALLY BEGIN with delinquent acts. Rather, it begins with nondelinquent problem behaviors. Children who show problem behaviors such as running away from home or committing truancy from school often show a more rapid development of independence and are less ...
Child care in the Netherlands: trends in quality over the years 1995-2005.
Dec 01, 2008; ... THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN WHO ATTEND a child-care center in the Netherlands has been growing rapidly. In the last decade, this number has more than doubled, and, at the date of publication, approximately one fourth of all children between the ages of 0 and 4 years were attending a child-care ...
Parenting style as a mediator between children's negative emotionality and problematic behavior in early childhood.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... CHILDREN DIFFER FROM EACH OTHER beginning early in life, and these differences may have implications for parent-child interactions. Some important differences pertain to children's temperament (Putnam, Sanson, & Rothbart, 2002). Although ideas about temperament go back to ancient ...
Delinquent peer group formation: evidence of a gene x environment correlation.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... HOMOPHILY, noted McPherson, Smith-Lovin, and Cook (2001), represents a "basic organizing principle" of human action (p. 416). For a variety of reasons, individuals prefer to associate with others of similar talents, beliefs, characteristics, and behaviors. Empirical evidence of this fact ...
Sleep problems of parents of typically developing children and parents of children with autism.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL SLEEP FOUNDATION (2004), children in the United States and their parents are not getting enough sleep (see also National Center on Sleep Disorders Research, 2003). Researchers have indicated that sleep problems occur in 11-69% of children (Bruni et al., 1996; ...
Mothers' and fathers' differential expectancies and behaviors: parent x child gender effects.(Report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... RESEARCH ON PARENTING indicates that fathers are generally less directly involved in the everyday lives of their children than are mothers (Baumrind, 1980; Dempsey, 2000; Ozgun & Honig, 2005; see also Dinnerstein, 1977; Pleck, 1997). Despite suggestions in the literature of some increase ...
Sensitivity and specificity of depression questionnaires in a college-age sample.(Clinical report)
Sep 01, 2008; ... IN EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES OF DEPRESSION, caseness is often based on scores on self-report questionnaires. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CESD; Radloff, 1977) and the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II; Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996) are among the most frequently ...