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Award/Grant Name: The Relation Between Parenting, Children's Social Understanding and Language
Award/Grant Holder: Dr Nicola Yuill
Co-applicant(s): Dr Ted Ruffman, Dr Lance Slade
Start Date: 01/10/2003 End Date: 30/09/2007
Award/Grant Description

This research will extend our earlier ESRC longitudinal study examining relations between parenting and 3-to-5 year-olds' social understanding (SU) and language (R00023701). Some of our main findings were that: (1) mothers' talk about mental states facilitates children's later SU, (2) advanced language in children shapes later parenting styles (rather than vice versa as typically conceptualised), and (3) advanced SU in children shown by mental state talk leads to a more cooperative child. Using this very rich data set we will follow up our children between 8 and 11 years, examining mothers' own SU and general language ability to determine whether it is mothers' talk that facilitates children's SU, or there is some kind of genetic predisposition (evident in mothers' own SU and language) that causes the link. We will also examine children's implicit SU. No study examined such relations into middle childhood, mothers' own abilities, or how parenting links to implicit SU

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Award/Grant Amount ESRC Grant Number Institution Discipline Award/Grant Type
£207,707.28 RES-000-23-0278 Psychology Research Grant Standard
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  Title Type URL Author Published
Full research report Full Research Report Yuill, Nicola 01/02/2008 13:38
Non-technical summary Research Summary Yuill, Nicola 01/02/2008 13:36
The relation between emotion recognition and social experience in early adolescence Conference Paper Yuill, Nicola 16/12/2007 14:31
The relationship between emotion recognition and theory of mind abilities in middle childhood : and its relation to earlier measures of belief and emotion understanding Conference Paper Sullivan, Sue 16/12/2007 14:29
Continuity from 3 to 11 years in children’s theory of mind and mental state talk Conference Paper Yuill, Nicola 16/12/2007 14:25
The relation between children's and mothers' mental state language and theory of mind understanding Journal Article Ruffman, Ted 16/12/2007 14:20
How language relates to belief, desire and emotion understanding Journal Article Ruffman, Ted 16/12/2007 14:12