Early Chilhood, Characteristic and Creative-Social Development

Attachment Relationships with Fathers and Mothers during Early Chilhood

The aim of this study was to analyze the nature of affective relationships between parents and children and to explore representational models in a sample of 111 children aged between 3 and 6, assessed using a projective measure. The results obtained confirm that, globally, security in the representation of attachment is higher with mothers. The figure of the father in the established hierarchy...

Creative Social Systems

In this paper we present an approach based on the view that creativity is essentially determined by social evaluation and that any computational modelling of creativity needs to account for this. Directions for modelling creative social systems are suggested based on results of computational social simulations of creativity and innovation.

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran

Early childhood development and social mobility.

Steven Barnett and Clive Belfield examine the effects of preschool education on social mobility in the United States. They note that under current policy three- and four-year-old children from economically and educationally disadvantaged families have higher preschool attendance rates than other children. But current programs fail to enroll even half of poor three- and four-year-olds. Hispanics...

Early social experience and brain development.

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