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Soley, Gaye; Aldan, Pinar – Child Development, 2020
Children's and adults' attributions of shared knowledge of and shared preference for songs were investigated across two prominent social categories: language and gender. Both attributions indicate similarity among individuals but shared cultural knowledge can be more informative about common social history than shared preference, as it is mainly…
Descriptors: Preferences, Singing, Gender Differences, Attribution Theory
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Malti, Tina; Killen, Melanie; Gasser, Luciano – Child Development, 2012
Adolescents' social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in three contexts, nationality, gender, and personality, were measured in a sample of 12- and 15-year-old Swiss and non-Swiss adolescents (N = 247). Overall, adolescents judged exclusion based on nationality as less acceptable than exclusion based on gender or personality.…
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Social Behavior
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Swinton, Akilah D.; Kurtz-Costes, Beth; Rowley, Stephanie J.; Okeke-Adeyanju, Ndidi – Child Development, 2011
Developmental, gender, and academic domain differences in causal attributions and the influence of attributions on classroom engagement were explored longitudinally in 115 African American adolescents. In Grades 8 and 11, adolescents reported attributions for success and failure in math, English and writing, and science. In Grade 11, English and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, African American Children, Academic Achievement, Adolescents