The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to the children for participating in the study. Moreover, the authors are grateful to all the undergraduate students for their help in data collection. The second author was supported, in part, by funding from the National Science Foundation (BCS 0840492).
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Social Judgments and Emotion Attributions About Exclusion in Switzerland
Article first published online: 19 DEC 2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01705.x
© 2011 The Authors. Child Development © 2011 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.
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Malti, T., Killen, M. and Gasser, L. (2012), Social Judgments and Emotion Attributions About Exclusion in Switzerland. Child Development, 83: 697–711. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01705.x
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Adolescents’ social judgments and emotion attributions about exclusion in three contexts, nationality, gender, and personality, were measured in a sample of 12- and 15-year-old Swiss and non-Swiss adolescents (N = 247). Overall, adolescents judged exclusion based on nationality as less acceptable than exclusion based on gender or personality. Non-Swiss participants, however, who reflected newly immigrated children to Switzerland, viewed exclusion based on nationality as more wrong than did Swiss participants and attributed more positive emotions to the excluder than did Swiss participants. Girls viewed exclusion in nationality and personality contexts as less legitimate than did boys, and they attributed less positive emotions to excluder target in the nationality context than did boys. The findings extend existing research on exclusion by focusing on both emotion attributions as well as judgments and by investigating exclusion in a sample that included a recent immigrant group.