Showing papers in "Developmental Review in 2008"

TL;DR: This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by developmental neuroscience, and finds that changes in the brain's cognitive control system - changes which improve individuals' capacity for self-regulation - occur across adolescence and young adulthood.

TL;DR: The prototype willingness model of adolescent decision making as mentioned in this paper is a dual-process model designed specifically to address non-intentional but volitional adolescent risk behavior, and it has been applied to the study of adolescent risk behaviors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrated findings from 35 recent, longitudinal studies of the onset of heterosexual intercourse and found that early and middle adolescent sexual intercourse onset was more strongly associated with alcohol use, delinquency, school problems and depressive symptoms.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model of social understanding development which draws on two implications of Vygotsky's ideas: the importance of semiotic mediation for mental functioning, and the dialogic nature of higher mental functions.

TL;DR: Interventions to reduce unhealthy risk-taking are recommended that inculcate stable gist representations, enabling adolescents to identify quickly and automatically danger even when experiencing emotion, which differs sharply from traditional approaches emphasizing deliberation and precise analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview and discussion of the literature from various areas of psychology on adolescent goal content and pursuit since the publication of Nurmi's review in 1991.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual framework for the study of identity in the context of developmental and real-time is presented, which consists of two dimensions related to the notion of time: the first dimension involves the distinction between short and long-term processes, or, as they call them, the micro- and macro-perspective on time.

TL;DR: In this paper, four aspects of emotional competence that are important to children's daily social functioning (expression, perception, responding, and understanding) are discussed, differentiating between mentally retarded and normally intelligent children and adolescents with and without ASD in natural and structured contexts.

TL;DR: This special issue provides an authoritative review of developmental research on risk and rational decisionMaking, with fundamental implications for theories of reasoning, judgment, and decision making, especially neurobiological and dual-process theories.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of continuity and change in maladaptive anxious emotion is proposed, and a perspective which may resolve inconsistencies across studies on the stability of childhood anxiety problems is presented.

TL;DR: Behavioral decision research offers a general approach to studying cognitive aspects of decision making, as well as a platform for studying their interplay with social and affective processes.

TL;DR: It is concluded that assumptions on a positive role of breastfeeding on the mother–infant relationship are not supported by empirical evidence, and recommendation of breastfeeding should solely be based on its well-documented positive effects on infant and maternal health.

TL;DR: In this article, the literature on aggression, agonism, affiliation, and social dominance is reviewed in light of behavioral ecological theory suggesting that different forms of competition (scramble and contest) determine the use of affiliative and aggressive strategies.

TL;DR: This article proposed new ways of thinking about the role of parents in the development and course of children's relationally aggressive behavior and proposed a heuristic model to discover links between parent-child interactions, attachment, and relational aggression.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a cultural-developmental approach to moral psychology, which builds on and synthesizes findings from different research traditions, including the cognitive developmental, domain, two orientations, three ethics, and moral identity traditions.

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argued that adolescents take unjustified risks, often because of the weakness of their analytic systems, which provide an inadequate check on impulsive or ill-considered decisions.

TL;DR: It is argued that neither developmental psychology nor the psychology of eating and drinking have adequately dealt with the ontogeny of alimentary interoception and that a more serious consideration of the species-typical developmental system of food and fluid intake and the many modifications that have been made therein is likely necessary for a full understanding of both alimentary and emotional development.

TL;DR: A revised operationalization of joint attention incorporating the idea of Consummative Joint Attention, which is defined as a process variable that integrates these two theoretically different and complementary aspects of "joint attention", was proposed in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the potential diagnoses that young children with conduct problems may receive and related issues that may be of importance for such diagnoses are discussed and discussed. But, they do not discuss the treatment outcomes of these disorders.

TL;DR: A formal framework for modelling the developmental course in the distance–speed–time domain is introduced, grounding on Competence-based Knowledge Space Theory, which has the potential to bridge the gap between stage models and models of continuous development.