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The Role of External Sources of Information in Children's Evaluative Food Categories by Nguyen, Simone P.

“…Evaluative food categories are value‐laden assessments, which reflect the healthfulness and palatability of foods (e.g. healthy/unhealthy, yummy/yucky). In a…”
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Beyond table manners: Children’s gratitude for food and the role of parental socialization by Nguyen, Simone P., Seip, Isabella, Longinetti, Alexis

“…This investigation explores children’s food gratitude and parents’ socialization of this gratitude within the United States. Study 1 examined children’s…”
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Holding multiple category representations: The role of age, theory of mind, and rule switching in children’s developing cross-classification abilities by Nguyen, Simone P., McDermott, Catherine

“…•Cross-classification is the ability to categorize multifaceted-entities in many ways.•Age and theory of mind predicts children’s cross-classification over and…”
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Predictors of children’s food selection: The role of children’s perceptions of the health and taste of foods by Nguyen, Simone P., Girgis, Helana, Robinson, Julia

“…•We investigated children’s food selection.•By 4years, a food’s taste is a strong predictor of food selection.•Taste is a stronger predictor beyond a…”
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Positive Future Expectancies: When Hopeful Thinking Contributes to Happiness in Children by Nguyen, Simone P., McDermott, Catherine

“…This research investigates positive future expectancies, particularly hope in children, which is comprised of agency thinking, perceiving oneself as capable of…”
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Acquiring Non-Object Terms: The Case for Time Words by Shatz, Marilyn, Tare, Medha, Nguyen, Simone P., Young, Tess

“…We address the issue of children's understanding of abstract words with two studies on preschoolers' knowledge of the time-duration words minutes, hours, days,…”
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Children’s Expressions of Gratitude for General and Specific Categories Amid a Pandemic by Nguyen, Simone P., Gordon, Cameron L.

“…This naturalistic study examines how broad societal events like the COVID-19 pandemic affect children’s gratitude expressions for general and specific…”
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Gratitude for Categories of Needs Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Nguyen, Simone P., Gordon, Cameron L.

“…This naturalistic observation study investigated the influence of broad societal events such as the COVID-19 pandemic on public expressions of gratitude…”
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The Relationship Between Gratitude and Happiness in Young Children by Nguyen, Simone P., Gordon, Cameron L.

“…Over the past decades, much progress has been made in understanding the relationship between gratitude and well-being in adults, school-aged children, and…”
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Cross-Classification and Category Representation in Children's Concepts by Nguyen, Simone P

“…Items commonly belong to many categories. Cross-classification is the classification of a single item into more than one category. This research explored 2- to…”
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Inductive Selectivity in Children's Cross-Classified Concepts by Nguyen, Simone P.

“…Cross-classified items pose an interesting challenge to children's induction as these items belong to many different categories, each of which may serve as a…”
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A ladybug bear can fly and climb trees: Children prefer conjunctions of labels and properties for cross‐classifiable toys by Nguyen, Simone P., Girgis, Helana, Knopp, Jamie

“…The present studies (N = 159) investigated children's and adults' preferences for label and property conjunctions for cross‐classifiable toys. In Study 1,…”
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Trust and doubt: An examination of children’s decision to believe what they are told about food by Nguyen, Simone P., Gordon, Cameron L., Chevalier, Tess, Girgis, Helana

“…•This investigation examined how children use cues for distrust (inaccuracy and malevolence).•By age 4years, children are least trusting of inaccurate…”
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Intra-Individual and Cross-Partner Associations Between the Five Facets of Mindfulness and Relationship Satisfaction by Lenger, Katherine A., Gordon, Cameron L., Nguyen, Simone P.

“…Research has established that mindfulness may be useful to individual and dyadic well-being among both early-stage and long-term relationships. Nonetheless, it…”
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A Word to the Wise: Age Matters When Considering Mindfulness in Romantic Relationships by Lenger, Katherine A., Gordon, Cameron L., Nguyen, Simone P.

“…Mindfulness has been associated with relationship satisfaction among older and younger individuals across long-term and early-stage relationships (Khaddouma et…”
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away: Children's evaluative categories of food by Nguyen, Simone P.

“…This study explores how children evaluatively categorize foods based on their nutritional value. Three-year-olds, four-year-olds, seven-year-olds, and adults…”
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Children's evaluative categories and inductive inferences within the domain of food by Nguyen, Simone P.

“…Evaluative categories include items that share the same value‐laden assessment. Given that these categories have not been examined extensively within the child…”
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An Apple is More Than Just a Fruit: Cross-Classification in Children's Concepts by Nguyen, Simone P., Murphy, Gregory L.

“…This research explored children's use of multiple forms of conceptual organization. Experiments 1 and 2 examined script (e.g., breakfast foods), taxonomic…”
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A Theory-Based Approach to Teaching Young Children About Health: A Recipe for Understanding by Nguyen, Simone P., McCullough, Mary Beth, Noble, Ashley

“…The theory-theory account of conceptual development posits that children's concepts are integrated into theories. Concept-learning studies have documented the…”
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Body and soul: Do children distinguish between foods when generalizing biological and psychological properties? by Thibaut, Jean-Pierre, Nguyen, Simone P., Murphy, Gregory L.

“…Research Findings: In 2 experiments, we tested whether children generalize psychological and biological properties to novel foods. We used an induction task in…”
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