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Institutional Actors: Children's Emerging Beliefs about the Causal Structure of Social Roles
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Noyes, Alexander; Keil, Frank C.; Dunham, Yarrow – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Institutions make new forms of acting possible: Signing executive orders, scoring goals, and officiating weddings are only possible because of the U.S. government, the rules of soccer, and the institution of marriage. Thus, when an individual occupies a particular social role (president, soccer player, and officiator), they acquire new ways of…
Descriptors: Childrens Attitudes, Beliefs, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Culture and the Development of Views of Agency: Perspectives from Storybooks, Parents, and Children
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Goyal, Namrata; Wice, Matthew; Aladro, Alyson; Kallberg-Shroff, Malin; Miller, Joan G. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The present three-study investigation examined cultural influences on the internalization of social expectations. Testing the claim of self-determination theory that lesser internalization of social expectations is linked to socialization practices that portray social expectations as in conflict with autonomy, in Study 1 we undertook a content…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Influences, Self Determination, Personal Autonomy
Culturally Shared and Unique Meanings and Expressions of Maternal Control across Four Cultures
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Cho, Hyun Su; Cheah, Charissa S. L.; Vu, Kathy T. T.; Selçuk, Bilge; Yavuz, H. Melis; Sen, Hilal H.; Park, Seong-Yeon – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Maternal control is a major dimension of parenting and has different meanings, practices, and potential consequences across cultures. The present study aimed to identify and compare mothers' conceptualizations of parenting control across four cultures to reveal a more nuanced understanding regarding the meaning and practices of control: European…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Immigrants
Children's Evaluations of Resource Allocation in the Context of Group Norms
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Cooley, Shelby; Killen, Melanie – Developmental Psychology, 2015
This study investigated children's evaluations of peer group members who deviated from group norms about equal and unequal allocation of resources. Children, ages 3.5 to 4 years and 5 to 6 years (N = 73), were asked to evaluate a peer group member who deviated from 1 of 2 group allocation norms: (a) equal allocation of resources, or (b) unequal…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Peer Groups, Behavior Standards, Evaluation
Evaluations of and Reasoning about Normative and Deviant Ingroup and Outgroup Members: Development of the Black Sheep Effect
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Abrams, Dominic; Palmer, Sally B.; Rutland, Adam; Cameron, Lindsey; Van de Vyver, Julie – Developmental Psychology, 2014
Research with adults has demonstrated a "black sheep effect" (BSE) whereby, relative to evaluations of normative group members, ingroup deviants are derogated more than outgroup deviants. The developmental subjective group dynamics (DSGD) model holds that the BSE should develop during middle childhood when children apply wider social…
Descriptors: Children, Behavior Standards, Social Behavior, Antisocial Behavior
The Role of Moral Emotions in the Development of Children's Sharing Behavior
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Ongley, Sophia F.; Malti, Tina – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study investigated the role of moral emotions in the development of children's sharing behavior (N = 244 4-, 8-, and 12-year-old children). Children's sympathy was measured with both self- and primary caregiver-reports, and participants anticipated their negatively and positively valenced moral emotions (i.e., feeling guilty, sad, or bad; and…
Descriptors: Role, Moral Values, Prosocial Behavior, Predictor Variables