Popular and rejected children's reasoning regarding negative emotions in social situations: The role of gender

Social Development

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 418-433

  Banerjee, Robin ^a   Rieffe, Carolien ^b   Terwogt, Mark Meerum ^c   Gerlein, Ana Maria ^d   Voutsina, Maria ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Institute of Education   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emotional displays; Gender differences; Helping; Peer status

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746267226     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2006.00349.x     Document Type: Article

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