'I'm gonna beat you!' SNap!: an observational paradigm for assessing young children's disruptive behaviour in competitive play.

@article{Hughes2002ImGB,
  title={'I'm gonna beat you!' SNap!: an observational paradigm for assessing young children's disruptive behaviour in competitive play.},
  author={Claire Hughes and Henna Oksanen and Alan Taylor and J Jackson and Lynne Murray and Avshalom Caspi and Terrie E. Moffitt},
  journal={Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines},
  year={2002},
  volume={43 4},
  pages={
          507-16
        }
}
BACKGROUND This study focuses on a novel observational paradigm (SNAP) involving a rigged competitive card game (Murray, Woolgar, Cooper, & Hipwell, 2001) designed to expose children to the threat of losing. Recent work suggests that this paradigm is useful for assessing disruptive behaviour in young children (Hughes, Cutting, & Dunn, 2001). METHOD We report on a large study (involving 800 five-year-olds) that compares observational ratings of disruptive behaviour on the SNAP game with mother… 
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