Understanding Intergroup Relations in Childhood and Adolescence

There are various theoretical approaches for understanding intergroup biases among children and adolescents. This article focuses on the social identity approach argues that existing research will benefit by more fully considering implications of this examining relations youngsters. These include (a) importance self-categorization, (b) role self-stereotyping group identification, (c) relevance shared understandings developing ingroup consensus, (d) coordinated action positive negative relations. suggest several avenues investigating children’s adolescents’ have not been appreciated in literature. However, there also limitations to developmental some these discussed.