Medical Xpress February 27, 2025
The COVID-19 pandemic had a major and sudden effect on all aspects of life, requiring children and their families to rapidly change their habits and adopt new behaviors to stay healthy.
New research from the University of Michigan shows that despite these challenges, young children understood the reasons for these novel norms and social practices aimed at promoting public health. The findings are published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Researchers highlight the major findings from a series of recent studies on children’s responses to preventive health behaviors. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a unique opportunity for examining children’s emerging reasoning abilities in the face of rapidly changing norms and social practices, said Felix Warneken, U-M professor of psychology...
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