Current Research

The Emory Infant and Child Lab is currently focusing on cross-cultural research concerning self-other development. We are interested with what we view as a crucial step toward a moral stance taken by children toward others in the pre-school years. In sharing, by 5 years children appear to have developed a sense of fairness. The question is whether this development is universal, or on the contrary variable across cultural contexts. Another question of interest is whether the sense of fairness is the same in highly contrasted cultural circumstances in which children grow. Our goal is to address these questions and contribute to a better understanding of what might be the roots of moral development and moral values, the roots of the "ethical stance" taken by children in the pre-school years.

Winter 2007 Newsletter

Fall 2006 Newsletter

Click on the below links for more information about each study:

Sharing Studies - 3 to 5 year old children and how they understand negotiation, equity and reputation

Squeaks - An extension of our studies on reputation and sharing with preschoolers.

Ownership - How do preschool children understand property and ownership?

Emotion

Contingency and Affective Mirroring in Fijian and Canadian mother-infant dyads

Ethnic familiarity and 6- and 10-month-olds’ processing of novel faces

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