Adolescents view social exclusion based on social class as more wrong than do children.

ABSTRACT: Psychological attitudes about social status hierarchies and social mobility often reflect stereotypic expectations about competencies and entitlements based on inequalities. Children who experience exclusion based on social class are at risk of experiencing a lack of opportunities, contributing to societal disparities. Recently, developmental science has examined the origins of attitudes that contribute to social exclusion, reflecting moral judgments about fairness as well as societal and group-based concerns about norms and intergroup dynamics. This study investigated children's reasoning about intergroup exclusion by focusing on social class as a potential exclusion criterion for children and adolescents in peer contexts in Türkiye, an understudied context for research. Participants livi

SUBMITTER: Gonul B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10527455 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature