Abstract Parental chronic pain is associated with adverse outcomes in children, but the mechanisms of transmission are largely untested. Mothers with chronic pain (N = 400, M age = 40.3 years, 90.5% White) and their children (M age = 10.33 years, 83.3% White, 50.2% female) were recruited in 2016–2018 to test longitudinal pathways of risk transmission...

Abstract Studying within-person variability in children's behavior is frequently hindered by challenges collecting repeated observations. This study used wearable accelerometers to collect an intensive time series (2.7 million observations) of young children's movement at school (N = 62, M age = 4.5 years, 54% male, 74% Non-Hispanic White) in 2021....

Child Development, Volume 95, Issue 3, Page 657-662, May/June 2024.

Abstract This study examines how retributive motives—the desire to punish for the purpose of inflicting harm in the absence of future benefits—shape third-party punishment behavior across intergroup contexts. Six- to nine-year-olds (N = 151, M age = 8.00, SDage = 1.15; 54% White, 18% mixed ethnicities, 17% Asian American; 46% female; from the USA)...

Abstract Historically, evidence of self-recognition in development has been associated with the “rouge test”; however, this has been often criticized for providing a reductionist picture of self-conscious behavior. With two event-related potential (ERP) experiments, this study investigated the origin of self-recognition. Six- to eight-month-old infants...

Abstract Digital flourishing refers to the positive perceptions of digital communication use in five dimensions: connectedness, positive social comparison, authentic self-presentation, civil participation, and self-control. This three-wave panel study among 1081 Slovenian adolescents (M age = 15.34 years, 53.8% boys, 80.7% ethnic majority) explored...