Publications by authors named "Elena Varea"

The emotional experience and the type of communication about cancer within the family are important factors for successful coping with pediatric oncology. The main purpose is to study mother's and children's emotional experiences concerning cancer, whether they communicate openly about the disease, and relationships between the type of communication and the different emotions expressed by the children. Fifty-two cancer patients aged 6-14 years and their mothers were interviewed in separate sessions about the two central themes of the study: emotional experiences and type of communication.

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Recent research has challenged the extended idea that when presented with conflicting information provided by different sources, children, as do adults, make epistemic judgments based on the past accuracy of each source. Instead, individuals may use relatively simple, but adaptive non-epistemic strategies. Here we examined how primary-school children ( = 114) and undergraduate students ( = 57) deal with conflicting information provided by two key sources of information in their day-to-day lives: their teacher and the Internet.

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