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Hwang, Hyesung G.; Markson, Lori – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2020
Starting in the preschool years, children show socially exclusive behaviors, such as intentionally leaving out another child from a ball game. Prior research investigating social exclusion understanding in preschoolers primarily used interview methods and it is clear that the verbal and cognitive skills necessary to identify and reason about…
Descriptors: Social Isolation, Preschool Children, Preferences, Nonverbal Communication
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Shostak, David A.; McIntyre, Curtis W. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Examined stimulus-seeking behavior in delinquent personality types drawn from populations (juvenile delinquents and young adult offenders). Results from a kinesthetic aftereffect task and sensation seeking scale indicate only limited evidence of pathological stimulus seeking by psychopathic delinquent personality type. This may result from…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Delinquency, Delinquent Behavior, Identification
Gibbons, Frederick X.; Gibbons, Barbara N. – 1979
The effects of labels, "mentally retarded" and "institutionalized" on the evaluations and causal attributions of nonretarded persons, and on the social distance preferences of EMR persons, were assessed. In addition, each group was asked to predict the likelihood of a labeled (mentally retarded) or a nonlabeled target person achieving success at a…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Expectation