Article archive / August 1, 2014
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 12. Source pages: 9.
Dr. Aline Hitti, Tulane Adjunct Faculty and Visiting Scholar, will present her research, “Outgroup and Ingroup Deviants with Exclusive and Inclusive Norms: Adolescents’ Evaluations,” as part of the APA paper session on “Intergroup Relations.”
Hitti examined adolescents’ views about those who challenge inclusive and exclusive norms. She studied sixth and tenth graders and found that both age groups positively evaluated those who challenged exclusive group norms. They evaluated both ingroup and outgroup deviants negatively when expressing exclusive orientations.
Her findings indicate that adolescents evaluate and reason about group dynamics using multiple forms of social knowledge, such as social conventions, moral concerns, and individual autonomy.
Hitti also is co-author on a paper, "Context Differences in Children's Ingroup Preference in Moral and Conventional Domains," with Drs. Kelly Mulvey and Melanie Killen, and others.
Dr. Hitti examines intergroup phenomena such as prejudice and group-based social exclusion from a developmental perspective.
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