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Children's Group Nous: Understanding and Applying Peer Exclusion Within and Between Groups
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Abrams, Dominic; Rutland, Adam; Pelletier, Joseph; Ferrell, Jennifer M. – Child Development, 2009
In Study 1, 167 English children aged 6-8 or 9-11 evaluated peer English or French soccer fans that were loyal or partially disloyal. In Study 2, 149 children aged 5-11 made judgments about generic inclusion norms between and within competitive groups. In both studies, children's understanding of intergroup inclusion/exclusion norms (group nous)…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Peer Groups, Group Dynamics, Norms
Socialization and Situational Influences on Sustained Altruism.
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Clary, E. Gil; Miller, Jude – Child Development, 1986
The sustained altruism of volunteers at a telephone crisis-counseling agency was examined. The rate of sustained altruism of normative volunteers in highly cohesive training groups was increased to a level comparable to that of autonomous volunteers, while the altruism of autonomous volunteers was not affected by the training group experience.…
Descriptors: Adults, Altruism, Context Effect, Group Experience
The Effects of Prior Group Experience, Age, and Familiarity on the Quality and Organization of Preschoolers' Social Relationships.
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Harper, Lawrence V.; Huie, Karen S. – Child Development, 1985
Assessed contributions of familiarity, prior experience, and age to frequency and degree of social participation of preschoolers. Normative analysis of group differences indicated that sex, age, prior peer-group experience, and familiarity did not interact and that all of them independently affected 3- and 4-year-old preschoolers' social play.…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Cooperation, Group Experience
Adaptation and Competence in Early Childhood: Communally Raised Kibbutz Children versus Family Raised Children in the City.
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Levy-Shiff, Rachel – Child Development, 1983
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Descriptors: Child Rearing, Collective Settlements, Comparative Analysis, Family Life
The Effects of Sociodramatic Play on Problem-solving Behavior among Culturally Disadvantaged Preschool Children
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Rosen, Catherine Elkin – Child Development, 1974
Descriptors: Black Youth, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged, Dramatic Play
Initiating Day Care at Three Years of Age: Effects on Attachment
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Moskowitz, Debbie S.; And Others – Child Development, 1977
The Ainsworth-Wittig strange situation was used to compare 12 42-month-old children with approximately 6 months of day care experience to individually matched children who had not had group child rearing experience. Results did not support the idea that day-care experience impairs attachment to the mother. (JMB)
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Group Experience
Cross-Sex and Same-Sex Assertive Bids in a Cooperative Group Task.
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Sgan, Mabel L.; Pickert, Sarah M. – Child Development, 1980
Examined assertive bids of elementary school children engaged in a cooperative task. Results from kindergarten and grade one participants support previous research regarding greater male assertiveness and attempts to influence other boys. By grade three, girls' overall assertiveness equaled that of boys. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Assertiveness, Children, Cooperation