Social Cognitive Development handbook 13-14 - University of Sussex

Hosie, P, et al. (2000) Knowledge of display rules in prelingually deaf and hearing children.
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry and allied disciplines 41, 3 389
1b Self-presentation
Watling, D. & Banerjee, R. (2007). Children’s understanding of modesty in front of peer
and adult audiences. Infant and Child Development, 16, 227-236
Juvonen, J. & and Murdock, T. (1995) Grade-Level Differences in the Social Value of Effort:
Implications for Self-Presentation Tactics of Early Adolescents. Child Development, 66, 6,
1694-1705.
Clark, M., Pataki, S. & Carver, V. (1996) Some thoughts and findings on self-presentation
of emotions in relationships. In G. Fletcher & J. Fitness (Eds). Knowledge structures in close
relationships: a social psychological approach. Part available on google books: skim through
for aspects relevant to parents and children.
Juvonen, J, (1996) Self-presentation tactics promoting teacher and peer approval: The
function of excuses and other clever explanations. In Juvonen, J. & Wentzel, K. (1996)
Social Motivation: Understanding Children’s School Adjustment. Part available on google
books.
1c Socio-cultural Context and Emotional Display
Saarni, C. (1998). Issues of cultural meaningfulness in emotional development.
Developmental Psychology, Vol 34(4), 647-652. doi: 10.1037/0012-1649.34.4.647
Cole,P., Bruschi B., Tamang, L. (2002) Cultural Differences in Children's Emotional
Reactions to Difficult Situations. Child Development 73 (3), 983–996. Plus many other
papers by Cole and her colleagues.
Any of Judy Dunn's work e.g. Dunn, J. Brown, J. Slomkowski, C. Tesla, C. & Youngblade, L.
(1991) Young children's understanding of other people's feelings and beliefs: Individual
differences and their antecedents. Child Development, 62, 1352-1366.
McDowell, D. J. and Parke, R. D. (2005), Parental Control and Affect as Predictors of
Children's Display Rule Use and Social Competence with Peers. Social Development,
14: 440–457.
Engelmann, J. & Pogosyan, M. (2013) Emotion perception across cultures: the role of
cognitive mechanisms Frontiers in psychology 4 2013
Matsumoto, D. (1993). Ethnic differences in affect intensity, emotion judgements, display
rule attitudes and self-reported emotional expression in an American sample. Motivation
and Emotion, 17, 107-123.
Suggested Questions
1a) Is emotional or cognitive development more important in children’s growing
appreciation of emotional display rules?
1b) When and through what processes do children come to understand self-presentation?
1c) In what ways might socio-cultural context explain development of emotional display?
2. THE CONCEPT OF PERSON: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
What do we mean by personality? We look at this in three ways: first, how do psychologists
see personality? Is it specific to humans? When does temperament become personality? Why
are they measured so differently and what are the implications of seeing them as different
concepts? Is personality influenced by culture or do cultures have typical personalities
shaped by genes and cultural evolution? Second, we ask whether our common sense use of
‘personality’ to explain behaviour is universal or culturally specific and how it develops.
Thirdly, we take an unusual historical perspective to the question of personal identity.
Baumeister argues that 'no series of laboratory experiments are likely to explain the nature
of identity’ and therefore decided to use history as a quasi-experiment. Historical evidence
suggests that the concern with problems of selfhood is essentially a modern phenomenon.
Medieval lords and serfs apparently did not struggle with self-definition the way modern
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