The company they keep and avoid: Social goal orientation as a predictor of children's ethnic segregation

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1116-1124

  Wilson, Travis M ^a   Rodkin, Philip C ^b   Ryan, Allison M ^c  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross ethnic peer relations; Middle childhood; Social goal orientation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GOALS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84897961135     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035040     Document Type: Article

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