Adults’ responses to young children’s transgressions: a new method for understanding everyday social interactions

Young children’s misbehaviours can be challenging to interpret, evaluate, and intervene on. In turn, adults’ interventions on children’s transgressions inform children about how others view their actions. In the current research, we examined adult responses to recordings of everyday transgressions committed by young children. This research adopted a new method for assessing adults’ interpretations, evaluations, and proposed interventions in...