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Adam Rutland

Adam Rutland

My research interests focus on social-cognitive development, particularly the early development of children’s intergroup attitudes and identities. My recent research has examined when and how children’s prejudice is influenced by self-presentation, how intergroup contact can reduce childhood prejudice, the social and cognitive basis to children’s evaluations of peers within intergroup contexts (the development of subjective group dynamics), and ethnic identification and acculturation amongst ethnic minority and majority children.

Primary Interests:

  • Culture and Ethnicity
  • Group Processes
  • Intergroup Relations
  • Prejudice and Stereotyping
  • Self and Identity
  • Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Journal Articles:

  • Abrams, D., Rutland, A., & Cameron, L. (2003). The development of subjective group dynamics: Children’s judgments of normative and deviant in-group and out-group individuals. Child Development, 74, 1840-1856.
  • Abrams, D., Rutland, A., Cameron, L., & Ferrell, J. (2007). Older but Wilier: Ingroup accountability and the development of subjective group dynamics. Developmental Psychology, 43, 134-148.
  • Abrams, D., Rutland, A., Ferrell, J., & Pelletier, J. (2008). Children’s judgments of disloyal and immoral peer behaviour: Subjective group dynamics in minimal intergroup contexts. Child Development, 79, 444-461.
  • Abrams, D., Rutland, A., Pelletier, J., & Ferrell, J. (2009). Children’s group nous: Understanding and applying peer exclusion within and between groups. Child Development, 80, 224-243.
  • Cameron, L., Rutland, A., & Brown, R. J. (2007). Promoting children’s positive intergroup attitudes towards stigmatized groups: Extended contact and multiple classification skills training. International Journal of Behaviorial Development, 31, 454-466.
  • Cameron, L., Rutland, A., Brown, R. J., & Douch, R. (2006). Changing children’s intergroup attitudes towards refugees: Testing different models of extended contact. Child Development, 77, 1208-1219.
  • Feddes, A. R., Noack, P., & Rutland, A. (2009). Direct and extended friendship effects on minority and majority children’s interethnic attitudes: A longitudinal study. Child Development, 80, 377-390.
  • Fitzroy, S., & Rutland, A. (2010). Learning to control ethnic intergroup bias in childhood. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40(4), 679-693.
  • Jugert, P., Noack, P., & Rutland, A. (2011). Friendship preferences among German and Turkish preadolescents. Child Development, 82(3), 812-829.
  • Rutland, A., Abrams, D., & Levy, S. (2007). Extending the conversation: Transdisciplinary approaches to social identity and intergroup attitudes in children and adolescents. International Journal of Behaviorial Development, 31, 417-418.
  • Rutland, A., Brown, R. J., Cameron, L., & Ahmavaara, A. (2007). Development of the positive-negative asymmetry effect: In-group exclusion norm as a mediator of children’s evaluations on negative attributes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37, 171-190.
  • Rutland, A., Cameron, L., Bennett, L., & Ferrell, J. (2005). Interracial contact and racial constancy: A multi-site study of racial intergroup bias in 3-5 year old Anglo-British children. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 26, 699-713.
  • Rutland, A., Cameron, L., Milne, A., & McGeorge, P. (2005). Social norms and self-presentation: Children’s implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes. Child Development, 76, 451-466.
  • Rutland, A., Killen, M., & Abrams, D. (2010). A new social-cognitive developmental perspective on prejudice: The interplay between morality and group identity. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(3), 279-291.

Other Publications:

  • Rutland, A. (2004). The development and self-regulation of intergroup attitudes in children. In M. Bennett and F. Sani (Eds.), The development of the social self. East Sussex, England: Psychology Press.

Adam Rutland
School of Psychology
University of Exeter
Washington Singer Laboratories, Perry Road
Exeter EX4 4QG
United Kingdom

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