Children's Reasoning about Peer Rejection based on Status is a three-year project that examines children's reasoning about peer rejection in different ethnic backgrounds in and around London. Children often make decisions about whom to exclude from play based on social groups (e.g., ethnicity). Unfortunately, peer exclusion or rejection results in lower academic and psychosocial adjustement. In an increasingly multi-cultural Britain, prejudice reduction is necessary for the well-being of children from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

 

This website provides up-to-date information about the project, methods, findings, and publications. 

 

This project is funded by the Leverhulme Trust through a grant to the Principal Investigator (Dr. Harriet Tenenbaum). The project starts on the 1st March 2014 and will have a duration of three years. The project team is based at the University of Surrey and Kings' College London. Our team is comprised of experts in the areas of children's sociemotional development, ethinicity, peer conversations, cognitive domain theory, and education.