Five Year Olds with Good Conscience Development

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At that time J. H. Hokse was a training analyst in Groningen, the Netherlands. His statement was noted down in a discussion during the theoretical course of the training.

An overview of his work, his functions and publications is available in his curriculum vitae on internet (www.uchsc.edu/earlydev/emde-cv.pdf).

For English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch language no such word was found.

The first author is much indebted to Robert Emde, JoAnn Robinson, and Marianne Riksen-Walraven for their help in making the design for the research project and carrying out the plans. The project was funded by the Koningsheide foundation in the Netherlands (www.koningsheide.org). The results of the measurement wave at 5 years are from a project funded by NWO, the Netherlands. (NWO 425–20–702).

Other explanations are also possible. For instance, in the Domino game the temptation to cheat could have been greater than in the Candy game, because the prizes were more attractive than the candy.

To obtain a robust dyadic measure for parent-child interaction, the ratings of parental and child behavior were factor analyzed together. Scree plots of eigenvalues indicated the emergence of one clear overall parent-child interaction factor, labeled the EAS-factor.

Personal communication during a discussion at the Institute for Forensic Psychology and Psychiatry in Arnhem, the Netherlands, February 2008.

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Willem Stapert

Willem Stapert is child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and has worked at the departments of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Universities of Groningen, Amsterdam and Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Sanny Smeekens is member of the staff at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Behavioral Science Institute, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.