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Yazdi, Haleh; Barner, David; Heyman, Gail D. – Child Development, 2020
Children generally favor individuals in their own group over others, but it is unclear which dimensions of the out-group affect this bias. This issue was investigated among 7- to 8-year-old and 11- to 12-year-old Iranian children (N = 71). Participants evaluated in-group members and three different out-groups: Iranian children from another school,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Preadolescents, Arabs
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Østvik, Jørn; Ytterhus, Borgunn; Balandin, Susan – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2017
Background: Although research on friendship among children without any reported disability is extensive, the investigation of the characteristics of friendship among children who are using augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) has received little attention. In this systematic literature review we investigated the current research on…
Descriptors: Friendship, Children, Preadolescents, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
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Park, Yoonjung; Killen, Melanie – Cognitive Development, 2010
This study investigated how Korean (N = 397) and U.S. (N = 333) children and adolescents (10 and 13 years of age) evaluated personality (aggression, shyness) and group (gender, nationality) characteristics as a basis for peer rejection in three contexts (friendship rejection, group exclusion, victimization). Overall, peer rejection based on…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Group Membership, Childhood Attitudes, Friendship
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Heyman, Gail D.; Fu, Genyue; Lee, Kang – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Children's reasoning about individuals' willingness to disclose their successes and failures was investigated among 194 6- to 11-year-olds in the United States and China. In Study 1, participants showed a valence-matching effect, in which they predicted that individuals would be more likely to disclose their performance to an audience of friends…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Values, Cultural Context, Cultural Differences
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de Guzman, Maria Rosario T.; Carlo, Gustavo; Edwards, Carolyn Pope – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
This study examines the role of immediate social companions in the prosocial behaviors of children from two cultural communities from the USA and the Philippines. Materials for this study comprised behavioral observations drawn from the Six Cultures Study--with 612 five-minute observations of 23 children (12 girls, 11 boys) from Orchard Town, MA…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Peer Relationship