The development of a sense of “we”: The emergence and implications of children’s collective identity

By D. Ruble, Jeannette M. Alvarez, Meredith A. Bachman, J. Cameron. 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

Ethnic discrimination and global self-worth in early adolescents: The mediating role of ethnic self-esteem (2006, background): “Phinney, J.S. (1991).”
Gender Identity and Stereotyping in Early and Middle Childhood (2010, background): “of themselves as members of a gender group, or as “we girls” or “we boys” (Maccoby, 1998; Ruble et al., 2004).”
Stability and Change in Ethnic Identity among Latino Emerging Adults in Two Contexts (2007, background): “Ethnic identity develops over time, beginning in childhood (Ruble et al., 2004).”
How gender differences in academic engagement relate to students’ gender identity (2014, background): “Long before school entrance, around the child’s second birthday, a concept of the self starts to develop (e.g. Hannover and Greve 2012; Harter 2003; Ruble et al. 2004).”
Extended contact through story reading in school : Reducing children's prejudice toward the disabled (2006, background): “, an “other”) into their collective selves (Ruble et al., 2004).”
Promoting children's positive intergroup attitudes towards stigmatized groups: Extended contact and multiple classification skills training (2007, result): “” This finding is in line with a growing body of research that suggests children develop a sense of social self from an early age (Bennett & Sani, 2004; Ruble et al., 2004).”
Positive intergroup attitudes: The role of ethnic identity (2007, result): “In contrast to social identity theory, which has paid little attention to changes over time (Brown, 2000), a developmental approach to intergroup relations emphasizes that both group identity and intergroup attitudes undergo change with age (Ruble et al., 2004).”
Interracial contact and racial constancy: A multi-site study of racial intergroup bias in 3-5 year old Anglo-British children (2005, unknown): “Research suggests children begin to develop gender and racial constancy from 3 to 4 years of age and the majority have this understanding by 7 years (Rhee & Ruble, 1997; Ruble et al., 2004).”
Fair Resource Allocation Among Children and Adolescents: The Role of Group and Developmental Processes (2017, background): “These processes involve group identification with social categories that emerge at a young age (7, 8), contributing to how we position ourselves in the social world and to whom we are loyal (9, 10); understanding group norms (11, 12), allowing us to reflect on mutual values that define acceptable at”