Dataset belonging to Thin-slice judgments of children's social status and behavior

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The moment a child walks into a new classroom, teachers and classmates form an impression based on minimal information. Yet, little is known about the accuracy of such impressions when it concerns children’s social functioning at school. The current study examined the accuracy of children’s, teachers’ and adults’ impressions of 18 unacquainted children based on thin slices of behavior. The likeability, popularity, prosocial behavior, aggression, and exclusion of these children were judged by 101 children, 79 elementary school teachers, and 68 young adults based on 20-second video clips. Judges were better than chance in predicting popularity and prosocial behavior, but worse than chance in predicting aggression and exclusion. Female judges were more accurate judging social exclusion of same-sex than other-sex targets. Teachers were more accurate than children in their judgments of prosocial behavior. The current study shows that confidence in one’s impression of especially aggression and exclusion in unacquainted children based on minimal information is not warranted.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/DANS-XNS-CMRE
Metadata Access https://datacatalogue.cessda.eu/oai-pmh/v0/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_ddi25&identifier=86cbd06ae84b1f9cfe043ad040d996aefcc712793a08c65939c11e5404e1c81c
Provenance
Creator T.A.M. Lansu; Y.H.M. van den Berg
Publisher DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Publication Year 2020
OpenAccess true
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Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences