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Children's behaviour and cognitions across different balance tasks
Messer, David J.; Pine, Karen J.; Butler, Cathal (2008-02)Children's understanding of the way objects balance has provided important insights about cognitive development [e.g., Karmil-off-Smith, A. (1992). Beyond modularity: A developmental perspective on cognitive science. ... -
Does 'wanting the best' create more stress? : The link between baby sign classes and maternal anxiety
Howlett, Neil; Kirk, Elizabeth; Pine, Karen J. (2011)This study investigated whether gesturing classes (baby sign) affected parental frustration and stress, as advertised by many commercial products. The participants were 178 mother-infant dyads, divided into a gesture group ... -
The effects of prohibiting gestures on children's lexical retrieval ability
Pine, Karen J.; Bird, Hannah; Kirk, Elizabeth (2007)Two alternative accounts have been proposed to explain the role of gestures in thinking and speaking. The Information Packaging Hypothesis (Kita, 2000) claims that gestures are important for the conceptual packaging of ... -
How visual images of chocolate affect the craving and guilt of female dieters
Fletcher, Ben; Pine, Karen J.; Woodbridge, Zoe; Nash, Avril (2007)This study asks whether exposure to images of chocolate induces cravings and guilty feelings in females. A further aim was to examine whether these effects are heightened in the case of dieters. The participants, 85 females, ...