@article{ref1,
title="Maltreated children's ability to make temporal judgments using a recurring landmark event",
journal="Journal of interpersonal violence",
year="2019",
author="McWilliams, Kelly and Lyon, Thomas D. and Quas, Jodi A.",
volume="34",
number="4",
pages="873-883",
abstract="This study examined whether maltreated children are capable of judging the location and order of significant events with respect to a recurring landmark event. One hundred sixty-seven 6- to 10-year-old maltreated children were asked whether the current day, their last court visit, and their last change in placement were &quot;near&quot; their birthday and &quot;before or after&quot; their birthday. Children showed some understanding that the target event was &quot;near&quot; and &quot;before&quot; their birthday when their birthday was less than 3 months hence, but were relatively insensitive to preceding birthdays. Therefore, children exhibited a prospective bias, preferentially answering with reference to a forthcoming birthday rather than a past birthday. The results demonstrate that the recurring nature of some landmark events makes questions about them referentially ambiguous and children's answers subject to misinterpretation.<br><br>© The Author(s) 2016.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0886-2605",
doi="10.1177/0886260516645812",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516645812"
}