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Thomaes, Sander; Sedikides, Constantine; Reijntjes, Albert; Brummelman, Eddie; Bushman, Brad J. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
When children experience habitual peer difficulties, adults often remind them that many people care about them. How do such reminders of support impact children's emotional responses to acute experiences of peer disapproval? Intuitively, support reminders would exert compensatory effects attenuating the emotional impact of acute disapproval.…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship, Emotional Response
Edwards, Diana Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In the school achievement and motivation literature of African American students, one major theme of the literature is a supposed inconsistency or discrepancy in African American students' value and expectations for their academic achievement and their actual levels of achievement. The discrepancy between Black students' achievement ideologies and…
Descriptors: African American Students, College Students, Black Colleges, Student Attitudes
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Larseingue, Matt; Sawyer, Chris R.; Finn, Amber N. – Communication Education, 2012
Although previous research has linked students' expected grades to numerous pedagogical variables, this factor has been all but ignored by instructional communication scholars. In the present study, 315 undergraduates were presented with grading scenarios representing differing combinations of course rigor, teacher immediacy, and student…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Componential Analysis, Assignments