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McKenney, Sarah J.; Bigler, Rebecca S. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2016
Sexually objectifying messages about girls and women are common in U.S. popular culture. As a consequence of exposure to such messages, girls may develop "internalized sexualization," or internalization of the belief that sexual attractiveness to males is an important aspect of their identity. We hypothesized that internalized…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Human Body, Early Adolescents, Females
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Patterson, Meagan M.; Bigler, Rebecca S. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
Individuals vary in the degree to which they are representative, or typical, of their social groups. To investigate the effects of atypicality on intergroup attitudes, elementary-school-age children (N = 97) attending a summer school program were assigned to novel color groups that included typical (blue or green) and atypical (light blue or light…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Childhood Attitudes, Intergroup Relations, Group Dynamics
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Bigler, Rebecca S.; Brown, Christia Spears; Markell, Marc – Child Development, 2001
Examined whether the presence of implicit links between social groups and high versus low status attributes affected formation of intergroup attitudes among 7- to 12-year-olds. Found that children's intergroup attitudes were affected by a status manipulation when teachers made functional use of the novel groups. Children who were members of…
Descriptors: Bias, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Group Dynamics
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Levy, Sheri R.; West, Tara L.; Bigler, Rebecca S.; Karafantis, Dina M.; Ramirez, Luisa; Velilla, Elizabeth – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology: an international lifespan journal, 2005
This experiment examined the impact of messages about uniqueness and similarity between groups of people on Black and Latino children's social attitudes. Children (ages 11-14) read two brief science books embedded with a similarities message ("all people are basically the same"), unique message ("each person is unique"), combined similar-unique…
Descriptors: Social Attitudes, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, Youth