{"pk":28287,"title":"A Perspective-Taking Intervention to Decrease Gender-Based Exclusion","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Young children preferentially include same-gender peers in their play, restricting learning opportunities and reinforcingstereotypical gender roles (Ruble et al., 2006). Two studies aimed to reduce 4-6-year-old childrens gender-based exclu-sion through a perspective-taking intervention. Study 1 (N=98, M=5.38 years) evaluated whether inviting participantsto consider peers exclusion-related emotions would lead participants to subsequently include (new) other-gender peers.Participants in the intervention condition were more socially inclusive from pre- to post-test than were participants in acontrol condition (p¡0.05). Study 2 (N=101, M=5.37 years) replicated the results from Study 1 (p¡0.05) and demonstratedthat changes in childrens inclusive behaviors from pre- to post-test were not driven by social desirability concerns; childrenbecame more inclusive whether or not an experimenter watched them make their choices (p ¿ 0.75). Ongoing research istesting whether the effectiveness of the present intervention is amplified when children can see (rather than infer) excludedchildrens emotional reactions.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Abstracts-Posters","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tg6p00j","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Bailey","middle_name":"","last_name":"Immel","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisonsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Katharine","middle_name":"","last_name":"Scott","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisonsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Patricia","middle_name":"G","last_name":"Devine","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisonsin - Madison","department":""},{"first_name":"Kristin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shutts","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Wisonsin - Madison","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28287/galley/17946/download/"}]}