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Keep the Cat in the Bag: Children Understand That Telling a Friend's Secret Can Harm the Friendship
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Liberman, Zoe – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Secrets play a powerful role in human social relationships. Here, we examine the developmental trajectory of 3- to 10-year-old children's (N = 630) expectations about (a) how relationships impact whether people will keep secrets, and (b) how relationships are impacted when a confidee keeps versus tells a confider's secret. Sophisticated…
Descriptors: Children, Peer Relationship, Friendship, Expectation
The Reasons Young Children Give to Peers When Explaining Their Judgments of Moral and Conventional Rules
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Mammen, Maria; Köymen, Bahar; Tomasello, Michael – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Moral justifications work, when they do, by invoking values that are shared in the common ground of the interlocutors. We asked 3- and 5-year-old peer dyads (N = 144) to identify and punish norm transgressors. In the moral condition, the transgressor violated a moral norm (e.g., by stealing); in the social rules condition, she/he violated a…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Young Children, Peer Relationship, Social Attitudes
Peer Victimization and Well-Being as a Function of Same-Ethnicity Classmates and Classroom Social Norms: Revisiting Person × Environment Mismatch Theory
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Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Chambless, Kalie; Brandt, Taylor – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Person × Environment mismatch theory has been applied to understanding how the classroom social ecology moderates associations between peer victimization and socioemotional well-being. In 2004, Bellmore et al. applied this theory to the ethnic composition and social climate of the classroom. The current study tested whether their findings…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Well Being, Classroom Environment
Perceptions of Economic Inequality Are Related to Children's Judgments about Access to Opportunities
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Elenbaas, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2019
This study examined how children's perceptions of economic inequalities impacted their moral judgments about access to opportunities. The sample included ethnically diverse 8- to 14-year-olds (N = 267; M = 11.61 years, SD = 1.88) of middle- to upper-middle-income backgrounds. The larger the economic inequality in access to opportunities children…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Children, Early Adolescents, Socioeconomic Status
Classroom Norms of Bullying Alter the Degree to Which Children Defend in Response to Their Affective Empathy and Power
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Peets, Kätlin; Pöyhönen, Virpi; Juvonen, Jaana; Salmivalli, Christina – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study examined whether the degree to which bullying is normative in the classroom would moderate associations between "intra"- (cognitive and affective empathy, self-efficacy beliefs) and "inter"personal (popularity) factors and defending behavior. Participants were 6,708 third- to fifth-grade children (49% boys;…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Attitudes, Student Behavior, Empathy
Adolescents' Social Goals, Beliefs about the Causes of Social Success, and Satisfaction in Peer Relations.
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Jarvinen, Denis W.; Nicholls, John G. – Developmental Psychology, 1996
Examined the social goals and beliefs involved in adolescent peer relationships among 266 ninth-grade students. Factor analysis of questionnaire responses identified relevant goals (intimacy, nurturance, dominance, leadership, popularity, and avoidance) and beliefs (sincerity, status, responsibility, caring, entertaining, and toughness) concerning…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Intimacy, Leadership