1 Division of Neurosurgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Neuroscience and Mental Health Program, Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ont...

Counterfactual reasoning (CFR)-mentally representing what the world would be like now if things had been different in the past-is an important aspect of human cognition and the focus of research in areas such as philosophy, social psychology, and clinical psychology. More recently, it has also gained broad interest in cognitive developmental psychology, mainly focusing on the question of how th...

Much research in social psychology has shown that otherwise helpful people often fail to help when bystanders are present. Research in developmental psychology has shown that even very young children help and that the presence of others can actually increase helping in some cases. In the current study, in contrast, 5-year-old children helped an experimenter at very high levels when they were al...

Transnational family literature has established that parent-child separations affect negatively on the emotional well-being of migrant parents. Less attention has been paid to other effects separation can have on these parents' lives. Building on insights from transnational family studies and organizational psychology, this article explores the potential link between transnational family life a...

The success of children's education is the a nation. Teachers must understand psychology learning so that can play role and influence children. This research was descriptive in form library which formulated through deductive analysis. Research on with psychological perspective needs to be carried out determine acceptance children environment (family, school, surroundings) providing valuable for...

Recent research in moral psychology have suggested that children make judgments about distributive justice early on in development, and in particular they appear to be able to use merit when distributing the benefits of a collective action. This prediction has recently been validated in various western cultures but it is unknown whether it also applies to more collectivistic cultures, in which ...

Quality of Life and Neurocognitive Functioning in Children with Sickle Cell Disease: Investigating the Feasibility of a Computerized Cognitive Training Program by Taryn Margaret Allen Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Melanie J. Bonner, Supervisor ___________________________ John Curry ___________________...

Meta-analyses and structured reviews provide a synthesis of the results multiple studies, thus offering unique contributions to informing practice advancing science in field school psychology. High-quality meta-analyses include review summary extant studies highlight clear directions for future research. Given ongoing efforts scholars publishing with specific samples, allow considering collecti...

Aims and background: To explore music therapy as special education at preschool level. The research has been carried out in a context where the relevance of is understood light children’s rights to inclusion participation. Method: In two focus group interviews, teachers, teachers assistants described their experiences use therapy. Data were analyzed through thematic analysis. Findings: results ...

The Values in Action Inventory of Strengths for Youth (VIA-Youth) is a self-report inventory assessing 24 character strengths among people 10–17 years of age. This paper describes the adaptation and initial validation of a German version of this measure utilizing several samples (in total N = 2,110 self-reports of participants aged 10–17 years, 56.5% girls; N = 219 parent-reports) from Germany ...