abstract:Child Development Perspectives is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Society for Research in Child Development. Its editor-in-chief is Nancy Eisenberg.
As early as age 3, children have what researchers call a "positivity bias" a tendency to see themselves as smart regardless of their abilities, and to exaggerate positive traits in others, says a 2010 study in the journal ChildDevelopmentPerspectives.