ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2025
Who Will Be My Friend? The Role of the Liking Gap in Preschooler Friend Selection.
Article in Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
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- Equal Partners, Prioritized Lives? Preschoolers' Evaluative Patterns Toward Humans and Robots in Conventional and Moral Domains.PsyCh journal · 2026Article
- Adolescents' Attitudes and Perceptions Toward Peers with Hearing Aids: The Hearing Aid Effect in the Mid-2020s.Journal of the American Academy of Audiology · 2026Article
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Friend selection is a crucial aspect of social development, particularly during preschool years. This study investigated the role of the liking gap in shaping preschoolers' friend selection mechanisms through two experiments. In Experiment 1 (
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