Research
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Latest papers
Humorous peer play and social understanding in childhood.
Communications psychology · 2025 · senior author
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers.
International journal of behavioral development · 2023
Positive and negative actions early in the relationship predict later interactions among toddlers.
PloS one · 2022
Latest funding
- $87,177
How much instability is there in early childhood education and care, and what is it related to in terms program and child characteristics?
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $87,946
Hidden Sites of Liminality: Children Affected by War and Protracted Displacement in Greece and Israel
SSHRC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $180,864
Is quality of Early Childhood Education and Care a characteristic of children, educators, classrooms or programs?
SSHRC · 2019 · Co-investigator
15 publications.
Humorous peer play and social understanding in childhood.
Paine AL, Hashmi S, Fink E, Mitchell P, Howe N
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers.
Lahat A, Perlman M, Howe N, Recchia HE, Bukowski WM, Santo JB, Luo Z, Ross H
Positive and negative actions early in the relationship predict later interactions among toddlers.
Lahat A, Lou Z, Perlman M, Howe N, Santo JB, Recchia HE, Bukowski WM, Ross HS
Naturalistic Parent Teaching in the Home Environment During Early Childhood.
Della Porta SL, Sukmantari P, Howe N, Farhat F, Ross HS
Parental autonomy support in relation to preschool aged children's behavior: Examining positive guidance, negative control, and responsiveness.
Linkiewich D, Martinovich VV, Rinaldi CM, Howe N, Gokiert R
'H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, PEE! Get it? Pee!': Siblings' shared humour in childhood.
Paine AL, Howe N, Karajian G, Hay DF, DeHart G
Differentiating typical from atypical perpetration of sibling-directed aggression during the preschool years.
Dirks MA, Recchia HE, Estabrook R, Howe N, Petitclerc A, Burns JL, Briggs-Gowan MJ, Wakschlag LS
PREDICTING NORMATIVE AND PROBLEMATIC FAMILY PATHWAYS TO THE TRANSITION TO SIBLINGHOOD: COMMENTARY ON VOLLING ET AL.'S MONOGRAPH.
Howe N
Sibling relationships as sources of risk and resilience in the development and maintenance of internalizing and externalizing problems during childhood and adolescence.
Dirks MA, Persram R, Recchia HE, Howe N
Children's understanding and production of verbal irony in family conversations.
Recchia HE, Howe N, Ross HS, Alexander S
How much instability is there in early childhood education and care, and what is it related to in terms program and child characteristics?
Principal investigators: Perlman, Michal
Keywords: early childhood education and care; childcare quality; instability
Hidden Sites of Liminality: Children Affected by War and Protracted Displacement in Greece and Israel
Principal investigators: Denov, Myriam S.
Keywords: children; war; protracted displacement; Greece; Israel
Is quality of Early Childhood Education and Care a characteristic of children, educators, classrooms or programs?
Principal investigators: Perlman, Michal
Keywords: early childhood education and care quality; measuring ECEC quality; unit of analysis of ECEC quality
Investigating the Development of Toddler Peer Relationships from a Social Relations Model Perspective
Principal investigators: Howe, Nina
Keywords: (1) peer relations; (2) toddlers; (3) social relations
Early childhood parent-child interactions: an examination of the stability of parenting across tasks and over time
Principal investigators: Rinaldi, Christina M.
Keywords: early childhood; social functioning; parent-child relations
Sibling imitation: facilitating shared meanings during reciprocal play and complementary teaching interactions
Principal investigators: Howe, Nina
Keywords: sibling and peer relationships; imitation; play; teaching
Co-constructing shared meanings in children's play with siblings and friends: links with social understanding
Principal investigators: Howe, Nina
Keywords: sibling relationships and friendships; pretend play; social understanding; internal state language
New directions in early childhood education in Canada
Principal investigators: Howe, Nina
Keywords: early childhood education and development; curriculum; intervention; teachers; social policy
Siblings' construction of social cognitive knowledge in the home context
Principal investigators: Howe, Nina
Keywords: siblings; social cognitive understanding; cognitive discourse; teaching
Mutuality in parent-child interactions: the emergence of emotion regulation strategies and social competence in early childhood
Principal investigators: Rinaldi, Christina M.
Keywords: early childhood; parent-child relations; mutuality; social competence; emotion regulation strategies
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Rebecca Gokiert and Nina Howe: 1 shared paper
- Holly Recchia and Nina Howe: 1 shared paper
- Educational Psychology
- Other
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