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Yüksel, Ayse Sule; Palmer, Sally B.; Rutland, Adam – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined prosocial bystander behavior in an online ball-throwing game (Cyberball), toward the exclusion of immigrants and nonimmigrant peers within intergroup and intragroup contexts. Participants were British children (8- to 10-year-olds) and adolescents (13- to 15-year-olds, N = 292; female N = 144). They were an ethnically diverse…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Individual Development, Prosocial Behavior, Children
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Jugert, Philipp; Noack, Peter; Rutland, Adam – Child Development, 2011
This study examined changes in and predictors of preference for same-ethnic friendships among German (N = 106) and Turkish (N = 45) preadolescents (M age = 10.4 years) during their 1st year in an ethnically heterogeneous school. Drawing on the contact hypothesis, it examined the relation between children's attitudes and their preference for…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Preadolescents, Friendship, Foreign Countries
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Rutland, Adam; Abrams, Dominic; Cameron, Lindsey – International Journal on School Disaffection, 2007
Social exclusion is a serious social problem. Not "fitting in" at school may be an experience that can scar children psychologically for life. This is unsurprising since being part of the "in crowd" (i.e. accepted in-group members) is extremely important to children and adolescents. Being rejected by one's peers can cause an increase in antisocial…
Descriptors: Children, Family Relationship, Peer Groups, Intergroup Relations
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Cameron, Lindsey; Rutland, Adam; Brown, Rupert; Douch, Rebecca – Child Development, 2006
The present research evaluated an intervention, derived from the "extended contact hypothesis," which aimed to change children's intergroup attitudes toward refugees. The study (n=253) tested 3 models of extended contact among 5- to 11-year-old children: dual identity, common ingroup identity, and decategorization. Children read friendship stories…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Refugees, Intervention, Hypothesis Testing
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Rutland, Adam; Cameron, Lindsey; Bennett, Laura; Ferrell, Jennifer – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology: an international lifespan journal, 2005
This paper examined the influence of interracial contact and racial constancy on the racial intergroup bias of young Anglo-British children. This multi-site study was conducted in areas of Great Britain that varied in terms of racial diversity. The study also investigated whether preschool children express bias on positive, but not negative,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Intergroup Relations, Racial Bias