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Children Tell More Prosocial Lies in Favor of In-Group than Out-Group Peers
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Sierksma, Jellie; Spaltman, Mandy; Lansu, Tessa A. M. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Children tell prosocial lies from the age of three years onward, but little is known about for whom they are inclined to lie. This preregistered study examined children's (N = 138, 9-12 years) prosocial lying behavior toward minimal in-group and out-group peers. Additionally, children evaluated vignettes in which an in-group peer told a prosocial…
Descriptors: Deception, Prosocial Behavior, Intergroup Relations, Elementary School Students
Children's Sympathy and Sensitivity to Excluding Economically Disadvantaged Peers
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Dys, Sebastian P.; Peplak, Joanna; Colasante, Tyler; Malti, Tina – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Economically disadvantaged children often lack the resources to purchase popular goods and participate in their preferred social groups' activities, making it difficult to fit in. Meanwhile, children from middle socioeconomic status (SES) families may have additional influence over whether low SES children are included in such groups. We examined…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Prosocial Behavior, Socioeconomic Status, Economically Disadvantaged
Lying, Negligence, or Lack of Knowledge? Children's Intention-Based Moral Reasoning about Resource Claims
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Rizzo, Michael T.; Li, Leon; Burkholder, Amanda R.; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2019
In a hidden inequality context, resource allocators and resource recipients are unaware that an unknowingly advantaged recipient possesses resources. The present study presented children aged 3-13 years (N = 121) with a hidden inequality vignette involving an accidental transgression in which one resource claimant, who unknowingly possessed more…
Descriptors: Deception, Child Development, Moral Values, Intention
Callous--Unemotional Traits Moderate the Association between Children's Early Moral Understanding and Aggression: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study
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Jambon, Marc; Smetana, Judith G. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Drawing on the framework of social domain theory, this multi-method, multi-informant longitudinal study examined whether callous-unemotional (CU) tendencies moderated the association between U.S. 4 to 7 year olds' (n = 135; M[subscript age] = 5.65, 50% male; 75% White) ability to differentiate hypothetical, prototypical moral and conventional…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Longitudinal Studies, Psychological Patterns, Young Children
Experimentally Measured Susceptibility to Peer Influence and Adolescent Sexual Behavior Trajectories: A Preliminary Study
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Choukas-Bradley, Sophia; Giletta, Matteo; Widman, Laura; Cohen, Geoffrey L.; Prinstein, Mitchell J. – Developmental Psychology, 2014
A performance-based measure of peer influence susceptibility was examined as a moderator of the longitudinal association between peer norms and trajectories of adolescents' number of sexual intercourse partners. Seventy-one 9th grade adolescents (52% female) participated in an experimental "chat room" paradigm involving…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Sexuality
Prospective Associations between Friendship Adjustment and Social Strategies: Friendship as a Context for Building Social Skills
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Glick, Gary C.; Rose, Amanda J. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The proposal that friendships provide a context for the development of social skills is widely accepted. Yet little research exists to support this claim. In the present study, children and adolescents (N = 912) were presented with vignettes in which a friend encountered a social stressor and they could help the friend and vignettes in which they…
Descriptors: Friendship, Correlation, Interpersonal Competence, Children