Given that children have a strong bias towards their in-group, this study examined how children respond to a group member who is revealed to have negative qualities. One hundred and twenty Anglo-Australian children who were 6, 9, or 12 years of age heard a story about an (in-group) Anglo-Australian boy and a (out-group) Chinese boy who were good…

Findings revealed that Ojibwa and Caucasian Canadian children acquired delay of gratification with age at about the same rate, supporting the conclusion that the development of the delay of gratification is a cross-cultural phenomenon. Native children tended to show less delay of gratification than White children. (RH)