title: Development of intra- and intergroup judgments in the context of moral and social-conventional norms.
abstract: Children and adolescents evaluated group inclusion and exclusion in the context of generic and group-specific norms involving morality and social conventions. Participants (N = 381), aged 9.5 and 13.5 years, judged an in-group member's decision to deviate from the norms of the group, whom to include, and whether their personal preference was the same as what they expected a group should do. Deviating from in-group moral norms about unequal allocation of resources was viewed more positively than deviating from conventional norms about nontraditional dress codes. With age, participants gave priority to group-specific norms and differentiated what the group should do from their own preference about the group's decision, revealing a developmental picture about children's complex understanding of group dynamics and group norms.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. mkillen@umd.edu
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Killen
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rutland
authors.forename: Dominic
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Abrams
authors.forename: Kelly Lynn
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Mulvey
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hitti
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D010379:Peer Group; D012931:Social Environment; D012933:Social Identification; D012938:Social Perception; D012945:Social Values