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Experimental 'microcultures' in young children: identifying biographic, cognitive, and social predictors of information transmission (2012)
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Flynn, E., & Whiten, A. (2012). Experimental 'microcultures' in young children: identifying biographic, cognitive, and social predictors of information transmission. Child Development, 83(3), 911-925. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01747.x

In one of the first open diffusion experiments with young children, a tool-use task that afforded multiple methods to extract an enclosed reward and a child model habitually using one of these methods were introduced into different playgroups. Eighty... Read More about Experimental 'microcultures' in young children: identifying biographic, cognitive, and social predictors of information transmission.

Qualitative Work and The Testing and Development of Theory: Lessons from a Study combining Cross-Case and Within-Case Analysis via Ragin's QCA (2012)
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Cooper, B., & Glaesser, J. (2012). Qualitative Work and The Testing and Development of Theory: Lessons from a Study combining Cross-Case and Within-Case Analysis via Ragin's QCA. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 13(2), Article 4

Charles RAGIN's work, especially his development of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), offers social scientists a way of bringing together the strengths of the qualitative and quantitative traditions. QCA takes a case-based rather than a variabl... Read More about Qualitative Work and The Testing and Development of Theory: Lessons from a Study combining Cross-Case and Within-Case Analysis via Ragin's QCA.

A randomised controlled feasibility trial for an educational school-based mental health intervention: study protocol (2012)
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Chisholm, K., Patterson, P., Torgerson, C., Turner, E., & Birchwood, M. (2012). A randomised controlled feasibility trial for an educational school-based mental health intervention: study protocol. BMC Psychiatry, 12, Article 23. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-244x-12-23

Background: With the burden of mental illness estimated to be costing the English economy alone around £22.5 billion a year [1], coupled with growing evidence that many mental disorders have their origins in adolescence, there is increasing pressure... Read More about A randomised controlled feasibility trial for an educational school-based mental health intervention: study protocol.

Fertile Green: Green Facilitates Creative Performance (2012)
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Lichtenfeld, S., Elliot, A., Maier, M., & Pekrun, R. (2012). Fertile Green: Green Facilitates Creative Performance. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(6), 784-797. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167212436611

The present research sought to extend the nascent literature on color and psychological functioning by examining whether perception of the color green facilitates creativity. In four experiments, we demonstrated that a brief glimpse of green prior to... Read More about Fertile Green: Green Facilitates Creative Performance.

Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state (2012)
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Wood, L., Kendal, R., & Flynn, E. (2012). Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33(4), 387-394. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.11.010

Many animals, including humans, acquire information through social learning. Although such information can be acquired easily, its potential unreliability means it should not be used indiscriminately. Cultural ‘transmission biases’ may allow individu... Read More about Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state.

Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice? (2012)
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Woolner, P., McCarter, S., Wall, K., & Higgins, S. (2012). Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice?. Improving Schools, 15(1), 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1177/1365480211434796

School premises make a difference to learning, but it is important to understand the relationship between setting and educational activities. Physical space has been found to entrench practice, making it harder to reflect and make changes. Yet change... Read More about Changed learning through changed space: When can a participatory approach to the learning environment challenge preconceptions and alter practice?.

Gifted Identification with Aurora: Widening the Spotlight. (2012)
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Kornilov, S., Tan, M., Elliott, J., Sternberg, R., & Grigorenko, E. (2012). Gifted Identification with Aurora: Widening the Spotlight. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 30(1), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282911428199

The current need to think globally over the long term has necessarily altered perspectives in education. Expectations for educational outcomes have increased over the last century for all students and, in many societies, diverse educational programs... Read More about Gifted Identification with Aurora: Widening the Spotlight..

The increasing availability of official datasets : methods, opportunities and limitations for studies of education (2012)
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Gorard, S. (2012). The increasing availability of official datasets : methods, opportunities and limitations for studies of education. British Journal of Educational Studies, 60(1), 77-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2011.650946

The re-use of existing and official data has a very long and largely honourable history in education and social science. The principal change in the sixty years since the first issue of the British Journal of Educational Studies has been the increasi... Read More about The increasing availability of official datasets : methods, opportunities and limitations for studies of education.