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Direct linkGrütter, Jeanine; Dhakal, Sandesh; Killen, Melanie – Child Development, 2022
Investigating socioeconomic status (SES) biases, Nepalese children and adolescents (N = 605, 52% girls, M[subscript age] = 13.21, SD[subscript age] = 1.74) attending schools that varied by SES composition were asked to anticipate whether a peer would include a high or low SES character as a math partner. Novel findings were that students attending…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Bias, Children, Adolescents
Sims, Riley N.; Rizzo, Michael T.; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2022
This study investigated the role of children's gender stereotypes and peer playmate experiences in shaping their desire to play with peers who hold counterstereotypical preferences (e.g., a boy who likes dolls or a girl who likes trucks). Children (N = 95; 46 girls, 49 boys; 67% White, 18% Black, 8% Latinx, 4% Asian, 3% other; median household…
Descriptors: Sex Stereotypes, Peer Relationship, Young Children, Toys
Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline; Rutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Ingroup preferences when deciding who to include in 2 distinct intergroup contexts, gender and school affiliation, were investigated. Children and adolescents, in the 4th (9-10 years) and 8th (13-14 years) grades, chose between including someone in their group who shared their group norm (moral or conventional) or who shared their group membership…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Preferences, Context Effect
Development of Intra- and Intergroup Judgments in the Context of Moral and Social-Conventional Norms
Killen, Melanie; Rutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Mulvey, Kelly Lynn; Hitti, Aline – Child Development, 2013
Children and adolescents evaluated group inclusion and exclusion in the context of generic and group-specific norms involving morality and social conventions. Participants ("N" = 381), aged 9.5 and 13.5 years, judged an in-group member's decision to deviate from the norms of the group, whom to include, and whether their personal…
Descriptors: Social Behavior, Behavior Standards, Moral Values, Children
Young, Mark; Killen, Melanie; Lee-Kim, Jennie; Park, Yoonjung – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2012
The need to play is primeval in human beings, at least as strong as the urge to fight. While the larger gaming community has traditionally focused on the fairly lucrative potential of exploiting the urge to fight in the form of violent and destructive war games, the "Serious Games" segment has become aware of the power of applying this…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Peace, Conflict Resolution, Educational Games
Killen, Melanie; Henning, Alexandra; Kelly, Megan Clark; Crystal, David; Ruck, Martin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2007
US majority (European-American) and minority (African-American, Latin-American, Asian-American) children were interviewed regarding race-based and non-race based reasons for exclusion in interracial peer contexts (N = 685), evenly divided by gender at 9, 12, and 15 years of age (4th, 7th, and 10th grades) attending 13 US public schools. All…
Descriptors: Racial Factors, Peer Relationship, Peer Influence, Social Experience
