TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Race-based humor and peer group dynamics in adolescence: bystander intervention and social exclusion
JO  - Child development
A1  - Mulvey, Kelly Lynn
A1  - Palmer, Sally B.
A1  - Abrams, Dominic
SP  - 1379
EP  - 1391
VL  - 87
IS  - 5
N2  - Adolescents' evaluations of discriminatory race-based humor and their expectations about peer responses to discrimination were investigated in 8th- (Mage  = 13.80) and 10th-grade (Mage  = 16.11) primarily European-American participants (N = 256). Older adolescents judged race-based humor as more acceptable than did younger adolescents and were less likely to expect peer intervention. Participants who rejected discrimination were more likely to reference welfare/rights and prejudice and to anticipate that peers would intervene. Showing awareness of group processes, adolescents who rejected race-based humor believed that peers who intervened would be more likely to be excluded. They also disapproved of exclusion more than did participants who supported race-based humor. <br><br>RESULTS expose the complexity of situations involving subtle discrimination. Implications for bullying interventions are discussed.<br><br>© 2016 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0009-3920
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12600
ID  - ref1
ER  -