Parents, preschools, and schools in different cultures vary greatly in the extent to which children are encouraged to develop long-term relationships with people outside the family circle—peers and teachers. In contemporary societies, parents face complex choices as they bridge children’s transitions to a wider world. This exploratory cross-cultural study used a newly developed questionnaire, P...

Analysis of the historical development of doctrines and theological motifs is a crucial but often neglected element of the interpretive process. Such investigations protect the interpreter from making the common mistake of reading later ideas back into the biblical text. This survey outlines the major views on Creation and the age of the earth advocated by Christians and Jews throughout history...

Cognitive control is a central concept in psychology but there are few standards for its definition and measurement. This study examined relations between two approaches to cognitive control, working memory (WM) and the process dissociation (PD) procedure. Span measures were used to form groups differing in WM capacity that then performed two PD memory tasks and two attention (Stroop) tasks. Es...