Development of thinking about things and people: social and nonsocial cognition during adolescence.
Among a group of 90 adolescents, the tendency to use organizing terms in free descriptions of persons was positively associated with a measure of formal operations. This association endured when age and mental age were statistically partialled out of the relationship. The results are taken to support the notion that basic cognitive developments also manifest themselves in the social-cognitive area.
Department of Psychology, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland.
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O'Mahony
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010553:Personality Development; D012938:Social Perception; D012951:Socialization; D013850:Thinking