Danish Majority Children's Reasoning About Exclusion Based on Gender and Ethnicity

Child Development

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 520-532

  Møller, Signe J ^a   Tenenbaum, Harriet R ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; DENMARK; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORALITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DENMARK; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISLAM; JUDGMENT; MALE; MORALS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79953021519     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01568.x     Document Type: Article

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