Expectations About Ethnic Peer Group Inclusivity: The Role of Shared Interests, Group Norms, and Stereotypes

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1522-1537

  Hitti, Aline ^a   Killen, Melanie ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARAB; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ARABS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84941261176     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12393     Document Type: Article

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