When is it okay to exclude a member of the ingroup? Children's and adolescents' social reasoning

Social Development

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 451-469

  Hitti, Aline ^a   Mulvey, Kelly Lynn ^b   Rutland, Adam ^c   Abrams, Dominic ^d   Killen, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Group dynamics; Group norms; Moral judgment; Social exclusion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904325486     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: 14679507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/sode.12047     Document Type: Article

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