Charlie Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlie Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlie |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9883-7893 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Stressors and maternal Coping in Congenital Zika virus Syndrome
Objective: Congenital Zika virus Syndrome is characterized by a series of neurological changes bearing consequences for child development. In view of the large number of children born with microcephaly and other neurological disorders, this qualitative study sought to understand and review the coping strategies used by 10 mothers of children affected by the syndrome. Methods: A semi-structured interview was applied, which identified four main mat…
Identifying How Many Studies Question Children Is Not Enough: We Need to Go Further into How Children Justify Their Responses to Questions – Commentary on Stolzenberg, Malloy, Verhagen, and Denne
Sustained Attention: Alternative to Joint Attention or Ambiguous Concept
For forty-years it
Developmental differences in children’s learning and use of forensic ground rules during an interview about an experienced event
Children often answer questions when they do not have the requisite knowledge or when they do not understand them. We examined whether ground rules instruction-to say "I don't know," to tell the truth, and to correct the interviewer when necessary-assisted children in applying those rules during an interview about a past event and whether doing so was associated with more accurate accounts. We compared children with intellectual disabilities (mil…
Taking Natural History Seriously in Studying the Social Formation of Thinking
Michael Tomasello's [2014] ambitious goal in his new book A Natural History of Human Thinking is to describe the evolution and, to a lesser extent, the development of uniquely human forms of thinking. His approach to this problem is to imagine the evolution of humans from a common ancestor with chimpanzees and to “reconstruct the evolutionary origins of this uniquely human objective-reflective-normative thinking” (p. 4). Titles including the term…
Social-cognitive processes in preschoolers' selective trust: Three cultures compared
Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are exposed to a language with evidential markers), Chinese preschoolers (known to be advanced in executive skills), and English preschoolers on an extended selective trust task (N = 144). We also measured children's executive function skills and their ability to attribute false belief. Ove…
Should We Trust Experiments on Trust
A new wave of research into children’s trust of others’ testimony has emerged from the finding that preschoolers prefer to learn new information from previously accurate informants, above those whom they have previously witnessed to be inaccurate. Whilst recognising the potential value of this burgeoning new field, we call for caution to be exercised in the extended and unquestioning use of the original selective trust paradigm first employed by …
Culture, executive function, and social understanding
Much of the evidence from the West has shown links between children's developing self-control (executive function), their social experiences, and their social understanding (Carpendale & Lewis, 2006, chapters 5 and 6), across a range of cultures including China. This chapter describes four studies conducted in three Oriental cultures, suggesting that the relationships among social interaction, executive function, and social understanding are diff…
Introduction: Links between social interaction and executive function
The term executive function is used increasingly within developmental psychology and is often taken to refer to unfolding brain processes. We trace the origins of research on executive function to show that the link with social interaction has a long history. We suggest that a recent frenzy of research exploring methods for studying individual executive skills should pay more attention to the tradition exploring the role of social interaction in …
Steering towards a Developmental Account of Infant Social Understanding
The past few years have witnessed a renaissance in studies of very early social understanding. Having been largely eclipsed by the assumption made in the ‘theory of mind’ literature that social development is driven in the fourth year of life, this regeneration resulted from some fascinating empirical findings. Yet we contend that clear theoretical advances are needed to explain these fascinating data. While much of this debate has been stimulate…
Swapping Stories: Comparing Plots: Triangulating Individual Narratives within Families
Issues relating to the trustworthiness of research narratives are particularly relevant for those family researchers who attempt to interpret, legitimate and represent comparative accounts of family life collected from different family members within the same family unit. We discuss these issues with reference to research we have carried out with 57 family groups. In confronting the analysis that emerges from a process of comparison and combining…
Pachinko: Declining Popularity or a Continuing Japanese Social Problem
Pachinko refers to the peculiarly Japanese amusement arcade game that was supposedly modelled on the 'Corinthian', a US pinball machine, imported to Japan in the 1920s. Pachinko machines closely resemble pinball machines, though they are somewhat smaller and have a vertical, as opposed to horizontal, playing surface. Pachinko machines are played almost exclusively in specialist pachinko parlours, where the compactness of the machines is an import…
Fathering and Child Outcomes
by Eirini Flouri Chichester : Wiley , 2005 ISBN 0470861681 , 221pp , £24.95 (pb) A stream of books on fathers has continued since Michael Lamb's first review of the field (Lamb, 1976) and shows no signs of abating. Most often the question asked of fatherhood researchers by conference audiences, journalists and parents in general, is ‘So, does fathering influence children's development?’ Given that there are now signs of increased domestic involve…
Constructing an understanding of mind: The development of children's social understanding within social interaction
Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an alternative account, according to which the development of children's social understanding…
Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families
Lexical choice can lead to problems: What false-belief tests tell us about Greek alternative verbs of agency
Verbs of agency denote relations between behavioural and mental states. Thus, ‘Jim is looking for X’ goes beyond a behavioural description, to take a mentalistic construal whereby Jim's desire for success, and his beliefs about how to search, explain his observed actions. Greek has two verbs of agency that can be used somewhat interchangeably by adults to mean ‘to look for’. The hypothesis is that young children will obey the principle of contras…
Helping with Homework? Homework as a Site of Tension for Parents and Teenagers
The setting of homework is strongly encouraged by the Department for Education and Employment on the assumption that support from parents, once gained, is unproblematic and useful. However, a number of researchers have observed the possibility of a negative impact of homework on families. This article presents interview data from families with teenagers, in which homework was described as a significant site of parent‐teenager tensions. For many p…
Intimate Talk between Parents and their Teenage Children: Democratic Openness or Covert Control
In so far as modern families subscribe to an ideal of democracy, then adolescence is a time in which the democratic ideal in the family becomes an object of explicit focus as parents and teenagers strive towards a renegotiation of their relative positions. Teenagers need to develop their adult identities and a sense of agency, while at the same time, parents who have invested both personally and financially in their children must reconsider this …
Why Do Fathers Become Disengaged from Their Children's Lives: Maternal and Paternal Accounts of Divorce in Greece
After divorce almost 50% of fathers lose touch with their children. Two explanations have been offered. The continuity hypothesis states that post-divorce relationships match pre-divorce contact. The discontinuity hypothesis, following Kruk (1991), states that fathers who have been highly involved are more likely to become disengaged because of the pain of separation from their children. In two Greek studies, mothers (Study 1) and mothers and fat…
Infant-Mother Attachment in Separated and Married Families
Two contrasting predictions about the effects of parental marital separation on infants' attachment to their mothers are considered. The "early adversity" hypothesis suggests that infants will be adversely affected by negative life events and thus will develop anxious attachments to their mothers. The "protective" hypothesis claims that infants are resistant to stressors because of their limited cognitive ability, and therefore will be no more li…
Parents'talk to their infants: The importance of context
This study examines two theories concerning the nature of parents' talk to their young children. The Differential Experience Hypothesis posits that mothers' and fathers' speech styles are distinguishable and each serves a different function in the child's language development. In contrast the Context Hypothesis argues that observed differences between parents are the product of the different contexts in which parent-toddler interaction is examine…
Intimate Talk between Parents and their Teenage Children: Democratic Openness or Covert Control
In so far as modern families subscribe to an ideal of democracy, then adolescence is a time in which the democratic ideal in the family becomes an object of explicit focus as parents and teenagers strive towards a renegotiation of their relative positions. Teenagers need to develop their adult identities and a sense of agency, while at the same time, parents who have invested both personally and financially in their children must reconsider this …
Swapping Stories: Comparing Plots: Triangulating Individual Narratives within Families
Issues relating to the trustworthiness of research narratives are particularly relevant for those family researchers who attempt to interpret, legitimate and represent comparative accounts of family life collected from different family members within the same family unit. We discuss these issues with reference to research we have carried out with 57 family groups. In confronting the analysis that emerges from a process of comparison and combining…
Social-cognitive processes in preschoolers' selective trust: Three cultures compared
Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are exposed to a language with evidential markers), Chinese preschoolers (known to be advanced in executive skills), and English preschoolers on an extended selective trust task (N = 144). We also measured children's executive function skills and their ability to attribute false belief. Ove…
Helping with Homework? Homework as a Site of Tension for Parents and Teenagers
The setting of homework is strongly encouraged by the Department for Education and Employment on the assumption that support from parents, once gained, is unproblematic and useful. However, a number of researchers have observed the possibility of a negative impact of homework on families. This article presents interview data from families with teenagers, in which homework was described as a significant site of parent‐teenager tensions. For many p…
Parents'talk to their infants: The importance of context
This study examines two theories concerning the nature of parents' talk to their young children. The Differential Experience Hypothesis posits that mothers' and fathers' speech styles are distinguishable and each serves a different function in the child's language development. In contrast the Context Hypothesis argues that observed differences between parents are the product of the different contexts in which parent-toddler interaction is examine…
Infant-Mother Attachment in Separated and Married Families
Two contrasting predictions about the effects of parental marital separation on infants' attachment to their mothers are considered. The "early adversity" hypothesis suggests that infants will be adversely affected by negative life events and thus will develop anxious attachments to their mothers. The "protective" hypothesis claims that infants are resistant to stressors because of their limited cognitive ability, and therefore will be no more li…
Why Do Fathers Become Disengaged from Their Children's Lives: Maternal and Paternal Accounts of Divorce in Greece
After divorce almost 50% of fathers lose touch with their children. Two explanations have been offered. The continuity hypothesis states that post-divorce relationships match pre-divorce contact. The discontinuity hypothesis, following Kruk (1991), states that fathers who have been highly involved are more likely to become disengaged because of the pain of separation from their children. In two Greek studies, mothers (Study 1) and mothers and fat…
Helping with Homework? Homework as a Site of Tension for Parents and Teenagers
The setting of homework is strongly encouraged by the Department for Education and Employment on the assumption that support from parents, once gained, is unproblematic and useful. However, a number of researchers have observed the possibility of a negative impact of homework on families. This article presents interview data from families with teenagers, in which homework was described as a significant site of parent‐teenager tensions. For many p…
Intimate Talk between Parents and their Teenage Children: Democratic Openness or Covert Control
In so far as modern families subscribe to an ideal of democracy, then adolescence is a time in which the democratic ideal in the family becomes an object of explicit focus as parents and teenagers strive towards a renegotiation of their relative positions. Teenagers need to develop their adult identities and a sense of agency, while at the same time, parents who have invested both personally and financially in their children must reconsider this …
Fathers’ influences on children’s development: The evidence from two-parent families
Lexical choice can lead to problems: What false-belief tests tell us about Greek alternative verbs of agency
Verbs of agency denote relations between behavioural and mental states. Thus, ‘Jim is looking for X’ goes beyond a behavioural description, to take a mentalistic construal whereby Jim's desire for success, and his beliefs about how to search, explain his observed actions. Greek has two verbs of agency that can be used somewhat interchangeably by adults to mean ‘to look for’. The hypothesis is that young children will obey the principle of contras…
Constructing an understanding of mind: The development of children's social understanding within social interaction
Theories of children's developing understanding of mind tend to emphasize either individualistic processes of theory formation, maturation, or introspection, or the process of enculturation. However, such theories must be able to account for the accumulating evidence of the role of social interaction in the development of social understanding. We propose an alternative account, according to which the development of children's social understanding…
Fathering and Child Outcomes
by Eirini Flouri Chichester : Wiley , 2005 ISBN 0470861681 , 221pp , £24.95 (pb) A stream of books on fathers has continued since Michael Lamb's first review of the field (Lamb, 1976) and shows no signs of abating. Most often the question asked of fatherhood researchers by conference audiences, journalists and parents in general, is ‘So, does fathering influence children's development?’ Given that there are now signs of increased domestic involve…
Swapping Stories: Comparing Plots: Triangulating Individual Narratives within Families
Issues relating to the trustworthiness of research narratives are particularly relevant for those family researchers who attempt to interpret, legitimate and represent comparative accounts of family life collected from different family members within the same family unit. We discuss these issues with reference to research we have carried out with 57 family groups. In confronting the analysis that emerges from a process of comparison and combining…
Pachinko: Declining Popularity or a Continuing Japanese Social Problem
Pachinko refers to the peculiarly Japanese amusement arcade game that was supposedly modelled on the 'Corinthian', a US pinball machine, imported to Japan in the 1920s. Pachinko machines closely resemble pinball machines, though they are somewhat smaller and have a vertical, as opposed to horizontal, playing surface. Pachinko machines are played almost exclusively in specialist pachinko parlours, where the compactness of the machines is an import…
Steering towards a Developmental Account of Infant Social Understanding
The past few years have witnessed a renaissance in studies of very early social understanding. Having been largely eclipsed by the assumption made in the ‘theory of mind’ literature that social development is driven in the fourth year of life, this regeneration resulted from some fascinating empirical findings. Yet we contend that clear theoretical advances are needed to explain these fascinating data. While much of this debate has been stimulate…
Culture, executive function, and social understanding
Much of the evidence from the West has shown links between children's developing self-control (executive function), their social experiences, and their social understanding (Carpendale & Lewis, 2006, chapters 5 and 6), across a range of cultures including China. This chapter describes four studies conducted in three Oriental cultures, suggesting that the relationships among social interaction, executive function, and social understanding are diff…
Introduction: Links between social interaction and executive function
The term executive function is used increasingly within developmental psychology and is often taken to refer to unfolding brain processes. We trace the origins of research on executive function to show that the link with social interaction has a long history. We suggest that a recent frenzy of research exploring methods for studying individual executive skills should pay more attention to the tradition exploring the role of social interaction in …
Should We Trust Experiments on Trust
A new wave of research into children’s trust of others’ testimony has emerged from the finding that preschoolers prefer to learn new information from previously accurate informants, above those whom they have previously witnessed to be inaccurate. Whilst recognising the potential value of this burgeoning new field, we call for caution to be exercised in the extended and unquestioning use of the original selective trust paradigm first employed by …
Social-cognitive processes in preschoolers' selective trust: Three cultures compared
Research on preschoolers' selective learning has mostly been conducted in English-speaking countries. We compared the performance of Turkish preschoolers (who are exposed to a language with evidential markers), Chinese preschoolers (known to be advanced in executive skills), and English preschoolers on an extended selective trust task (N = 144). We also measured children's executive function skills and their ability to attribute false belief. Ove…
Taking Natural History Seriously in Studying the Social Formation of Thinking
Michael Tomasello's [2014] ambitious goal in his new book A Natural History of Human Thinking is to describe the evolution and, to a lesser extent, the development of uniquely human forms of thinking. His approach to this problem is to imagine the evolution of humans from a common ancestor with chimpanzees and to “reconstruct the evolutionary origins of this uniquely human objective-reflective-normative thinking” (p. 4). Titles including the term…
Developmental differences in children’s learning and use of forensic ground rules during an interview about an experienced event
Children often answer questions when they do not have the requisite knowledge or when they do not understand them. We examined whether ground rules instruction-to say "I don't know," to tell the truth, and to correct the interviewer when necessary-assisted children in applying those rules during an interview about a past event and whether doing so was associated with more accurate accounts. We compared children with intellectual disabilities (mil…
Sustained Attention: Alternative to Joint Attention or Ambiguous Concept
For forty-years it
Identifying How Many Studies Question Children Is Not Enough: We Need to Go Further into How Children Justify Their Responses to Questions – Commentary on Stolzenberg, Malloy, Verhagen, and Denne
Stressors and maternal Coping in Congenital Zika virus Syndrome
Objective: Congenital Zika virus Syndrome is characterized by a series of neurological changes bearing consequences for child development. In view of the large number of children born with microcephaly and other neurological disorders, this qualitative study sought to understand and review the coping strategies used by 10 mothers of children affected by the syndrome. Methods: A semi-structured interview was applied, which identified four main mat…
Psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (10 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)