ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Emerging Adults' Reasoning Regarding Hypothetical Bias-Based Joking and Exclusion Scenarios

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Developmental Psychology

  • Megan Edgin
    UIC
  • Christopher Marosi
    University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Stacey Horn
    University of Minnesota
  • Larry Nelson
    Brigham Young University
  • Carolyn Barry
    Loyola University Maryland

Abstract

The study explores emerging adult bystanders’ qualitative reasoning around two hypothetical bias-based bullying behaviors and whether reasoning varies by behavior or victim’s social category (differences due to religion, race, and sexual orientation). Participants completed an anonymous online survey and responses were analyzed based on a Social Cognitive Domain Theory framework.

Bullying