The article discusses the importance of quantitative empirical character assessment for
better understanding the formation of character and for promoting virtue and thereby also …

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of social and emotional learning
(SEL) skills and resilience in explaining mental health in male and female adolescents …

Animal-assisted interventions are frequently used to stimulate and improve different skills in
children with and without disabilities. However, the heterogeneity of AAI studies in preschool …

We investigated, through a cross-sectional study, whether and to what extent toddlers'
empathy is associated with a set of individual and family factors known to foster positive …

Introduction Despite increasing interest in measuring social and emotional learning (SEL),
there is a lack of European-validated tools for assessing the efficacy of SEL programs. The …

Numerous studies suggest that both emotion knowledge and language abilities are
powerfully related to young children's theory of mind. Nonetheless, the magnitude and …

Research points to evidence of innate prosocial tendencies present early in life. As more
complex cognitive abilities emerge with development, this may alter the expression and …

This study examined whether emotional understanding and empathy were predictors of
prosocial lying in children aged 4 to 11 years. A total of 144 children participated in the …

The awareness that prosocial skills begin to develop during the early years, with lasting
implications for social lives, underpins increasing efforts to find ways of promoting prosocial …

Joint action, generally defined as working together towards a common purpose, has become
an important concept in many areas of cognitive science, from philosophical appraisal of its …