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Elenbaas, L., Hitti, A., Kneeskern, E., Ackerman, A., Fisher, K., Cao, J., & Irwin, C. (2024). “Honestly, they are just like us:” U.S. parents choose middle class gender and racial ingroup peers for their children. Developmental Psychology, 60(4), 637–648. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001724 (pdf)
Kneeskern, E. & Elenbaas, L. (2023). Someone who knows and someone I trust: Investigating how and with
whom U.S. 8- to 14-year-old youth seek to learn about racial inequality. Developmental Psychology, 59(10), 1892-1905. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001631 (pdf)
Ackerman, A. & Elenbaas, L. (2023). Eight- to 12 year-old U.S. children’s emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes. Social Development, 33(1). http://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12706 (pdf)
Killen, M., Elenbaas, L., Ruck, M. (2022). Developmental perspectives on social inequalities and human rights. Human Development, 66(4-5), 329-342. https://doi.org/10.1159/000526276 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., Kneeskern, E., & Ackerman, A. (2022). Social inequalities and morality. In M. Killen & J. G. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (3rd ed., pp. 104-117). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003047247-9 (pdf)
Killen, M., Burkholder, A. R., D’Esterre, A. P., Sims, R. N., Glidden, J., Yee, K., Luken Raz, K. V., Elenbaas, L., Rizzo, M. T., Woodward, B., Samuelson, A., Sweet, T. M., & Stapleton, L. M. (2022). Testing the effectiveness of Developing Inclusive Youth: A multi-site randomized control trial. Child Development, 93(3), 732-750. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13785 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., Luken Raz, K., Ackerman, A., & Kneeskern, E. (2022). “This kid looks like he has everything”: 3- to 11-year-old children’s concerns for fairness and social preferences when peers differ in social class and race. Child Development, 93(5), 1527-1539. http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13778 (pdf)
Mistry, R. S., Elenbaas, L., Griffin, K. M., Nenadal, L., & Yassine, A. (2021). Advancing developmental intergroup perspectives on social class. Child Development Perspectives, 15(4), 213-219. https://doi.org /10.1111/cdep.12431 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Mistry, R. S. (2021). Distributive justice in society and among peers: 8- to 14 year-olds’ views on economic stratification inform their decisions about access to opportunities. Developmental Psychology 57(6), 951-961. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001188 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2021). The importance of mutual respect, fairness, and compassion in educational settings. Zeitschrift Für Entwicklungspsychologie Und Pädagogische Psychologie, 52(3-4), 57-63. https://doi.org/10.1026/0049-8637/a000229 (pdf)
Burkholder, A. R., Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2021). Giving priority to race or wealth in peer group contexts involving social inclusion. Developmental Psychology, 57(5), 651-661. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001178 (pdf)
Mistry, R. S., & Elenbaas, L. (2021). It’s all in the family: Parents’ economic worries and youth’s perceptions of financial stress and educational outcomes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(4), 724–738. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01393-4 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., Rizzo, M. T., & Killen, M. (2020). A developmental science perspective on social inequality. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 29(6), 610–616. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721420964147 (pdf)
Rizzo, M. T., Elenbaas, L., & Vanderbilt, K. (2020). Do children distinguish between resource inequalities with individual versus structural origins? Child Development, 91(2), 439–455. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13181 (pdf)
Burkholder, A. R., Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2020). Children’s and adolescents’ evaluations of intergroup exclusion in interracial and interwealth peer contexts. Child Development, 91(2), e512–e527. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13249 (pdf)
Hitti, A., Elenbaas, L., Noh, J. Y., Rizzo, M. T., Cooley, S., & Killen, M. (2020). Expectations for cross-ethnic inclusion by Asian American children and adolescents. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23(5), 664–683. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219851854 (pdf)
Curren, R., & Elenbaas, L. (2020). Civic friendship. Jubilee Center for Character and Virtues Insight Series, 1–14. https://www.jubileecentre.ac.uk/userfiles/jubileecentre/pdf/insight-series/RC_LE_CivicFriendship.pdf (pdf)
Elenbaas, L. (2019). Perceptions of economic inequality are related to children’s judgments about access to opportunities. Developmental Psychology, 55(3), 471–481. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000550 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L. (2019). Interwealth contact and young children’s concern for equity. Child Development, 90(1), 108–116. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13157 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2019). Children’s perceptions of economic groups in a context of limited access to opportunities. Child Development, 90(5), 1632–1649. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13024 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L. (2019). Perceived access to resources and young children’s fairness judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 188, 104667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104667 (pdf)
McGuire, L., Elenbaas, L., Killen, M., & Rutland, A. (2019). The role of in-group norms and group status in children’s and adolescents’ decisions to rectify resource inequalities. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37(3), 309–322. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12274 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L. (2019). Young children’s reasoning about equality and ownership in resource conflicts. Cognitive Development, 52, 100808. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100808 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L. (2019). Against unfairness: Young children’s judgments about merit, equity, and equality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 186, 73–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.05.009 (pdf)
Killen, M., Elenbaas, L., & Rizzo, M. T. (2018). Young children’s ability to recognize and challenge unfair treatment of others in group contexts. Human Development, 61(4–5), 281–296. https://doi.org/10.1159/000492804 (pdf)
Rizzo, M. T., Cooley, S., Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2018). Young children’s inclusion decisions in moral and social–conventional group norm contexts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.05.006 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2017). Children’s perceptions of social resource inequality. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 48, 49–58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2016.11.006 (pdf)
Guerrero, S., Elenbaas, L., Enesco, I., & Killen, M. (2017). Preschoolers’ trust in social consensus varies by context: Conventional vs. moral domains. Anales de Psicologia, 33(1), 142–151. https://doi.org/10.6018/analesps.33.1.230831 (pdf)
Killen, M., Elenbaas, L., Rizzo, M. T., & Rutland, A. (2017). The role of group processes in social exclusion and resource allocation decisions. In A. Rutland, D. Nesdale, & C. Spears Brown (Eds.), The Wiley handbook of group processes in children and adolescents (pp. 101–123). John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118773123.ch5 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., Rizzo, M. T., Cooley, S., & Killen, M. (2016). Rectifying social inequalities in a resource allocation task. Cognition, 155, 176–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2016.07.002 (pdf)
Rizzo, M. T., Elenbaas, L., Cooley, S., & Killen, M. (2016). Children’s recognition of fairness and others’ welfare in a resource allocation task: Age related changes. Developmental Psychology, 8(52), 1307–1317. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000134 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2016). Children rectify inequalities for disadvantaged groups. Developmental Psychology, 8(52), 1318–1329. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000154 (pdf)
Noh, J., Elenbaas, L., Killen, M., Park, K. J., & Chung, Y. S. (2016). Opinion versus knowledge: The influence of testimony presentation on children’s judgments in morally relevant contexts. Early Education and Development, 28(2), 240–254. https://doi.org/10.1080/10409289.2016.1197013 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2016). How do young children expect others to address resource inequalities? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 72–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.05.002 (pdf)
Njoroge, W. F. M., Elenbaas, L., Myaing, M. T., Garrison, M. M., & Christakis, D. A. (2016). What are young children watching? Disparities in concordant TV viewing. Howard Journal of Communications, 27(3), 203–217. https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2016.1166086 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2016). Age-related changes in children’s associations of economic resources and race. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 884. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00884 (pdf)
Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2016). Research in developmental psychology: Social exclusion among children and adolescents. In P. Riva & J. Eck (Eds.), Social exclusion: Psychological approaches to understanding and reducing its impact (pp. 89–108). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33033-4_5 (pdf)
Cooley, S., Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2016). Social exclusion based on group membership is a form of prejudice. In S. Horn, M. Ruck, & L. Liben (Eds.), Advances in child development and behavior (Vol. 51, pp. 103–129). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2016.04.004 (pdf)
Killen, M., Elenbaas, L., & Rutland, A. (2015). Balancing the fair treatment of others while preserving group identity and autonomy. Human Development, 58(4–5), 253–272. https://doi.org/10.1159/000444151 (pdf)
Killen, M., Hitti, A., Cooley, S., & Elenbaas, L. (2015). Morality, development, and culture. In M. Gelfand, C. Y. Chiu, & Y. Y. Hong (Eds.), Handbook of advances in culture and psychology (pp. 161–220). Oxford University Press. (pdf)
Cooley, S., Elenbaas, L., & Killen, M. (2013). Moral judgments and emotions: Adolescents’ evaluations in intergroup social exclusion contexts. New Directions for Youth Development, 136, 41–57. https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20037 (pdf)
Njoroge, W. F. M., & Elenbaas, L. (2013). Understanding cultural variability in media use in young childhood. Zero to Three, 33(4), 38–42. (pdf)
Njoroge, W. F. M., Elenbaas, L., Garrison, M., Myiang, M., & Christakis, D. (2013). Parent cultural attitudes and beliefs regarding young children and television. JAMA Pediatrics, 167(8), 739–745. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamapediatrics.2013.75 (pdf)