V. REASONING ABOUT SIDE EFFECTS: INFLUENCES OF TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL EXPECTATIONS.

ANTIDEPRESSANTS; MENTAL depression; DRUG dosage; MENTAL illness drug therapy; AGE distribution; ANALYSIS of variance; ATTENTION; CONFIDENCE intervals; DISEASES; DRUGS; EXANTHEMA; FATIGUE (Physiology); HEALTH attitudes; INTERVIEWING; JOINTS (Anatomy); KIDNEYS; CASE studies; MEDICINE; PROBABILITY theory; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; T-test (Statistics); THERAPEUTICS; THOUGHT & thinking; TOES; DATA analysis; REPEATED measures design; DISEASE exacerbation; DESCRIPTIVE statistics

The article focuses on the influences of temporal and spatial expectations, timing and causal interaction of the spatial distributions of medicines in the body in younger children. It explores for studies that investigate different factors and youthful optimism interact with the development of reasoning about the side effects of medicines. It also mentions how young children often make different inferences about side effects compared with older ones and adults.