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David C. Witherington
Researcher at University of New Mexico
Publications - 50
Citations - 3001
David C. Witherington is an academic researcher from University of New Mexico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Developmental Science & Metatheory. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 49 publications receiving 2677 citations. Previous affiliations of David C. Witherington include University of Virginia & University of California, Berkeley.
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Travel broadens the mind
Joseph J. Campos,David I. Anderson,Marianne Barbu-Roth,Edward M. Hubbard,Matthew J. Hertenstein,David C. Witherington +5 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that, in infancy, the onset of locomotor experience brings about widespread consequences, and after infancy, can be responsible for an enduring role in development by maintaining and updating existing skills.
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Emotional Development: Action, Communication, and Understanding
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the importance of emotion communication as evidenced in infants through their emotional signaling to caregivers, their social referencing to significant others, and their growing skills at affective sharing with others.
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The role of locomotion in psychological development.
David I. Anderson,Joseph J. Campos,David C. Witherington,Audun Dahl,Monica Rivera,Minxuan He,Ichiro Uchiyama,Marianne Barbu-Roth +7 more
TL;DR: The range of converging research operations that have been used to examine the relation between locomotor experience and psychological development are highlighted, and recent attempts to uncover the processes that underlie this relation are described.
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Mothers' behavior modifications during pretense and their possible signal value for toddlers.
TL;DR: This work provides a first inroad into the issue of how children learn to interpret pretense acts as pretense, and examines the pretender's behaviors in 2 experiments in which mothers were asked both to pretend to have a snack and really to has a snack with their 18-month-olds.
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Body Size Stereotyping and Internalization of the Thin Ideal in Preschool Girls
TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-sectional investigation assessed body size stereotyping and thin-ideal internalization in 55 preschool girls from the Southwestern U.S. using a new method of assessment that is more sensitive to the cognitive developmental stage of this age group.