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Children who understand emotions become more attentive over time

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imageChildren may be absorbed in figuring out emotions of people important to them.Leonid Mamchenkov, CC BY

What is going on in the minds of young children when it seems they are daydreaming or appear to be scatterbrained?

A study that my coauthor, Susanne A Denham, and I conducted recently shows that inattentive children may sometimes be absorbed in...

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