Melanie Killen

General Research Area:

Social and moral reasoning about events that involve ambiguity, cultural norms, and stereotypic expectations; the role of intergroup contact, social cognition, and experience with unfair treatment as it bears on children’s and adolescents' evaluations of exclusion in multiple contexts; explicit judgments and implicit bias regarding peer encounters.

Selected Publications:

Killen, M., & Smetana, J. G. (in press). Social development in the context of social justice. Social Development.

Ardila-Rey, A., Killen, M., & Brenick, A. (2009). Displaced and non-displaced Colombian children’s reasoning about moral transgressions, retaliation, and reconciliation. Social Development, 18, 181-209.

Levy, S.R., & Killen, M. (Eds.). (2008). Intergroup attitudes and relations in childhood through adulthood. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.

Smetana, J.G., & Killen, M. (2008). Moral cognition, emotions, and neuroscience: An integrative developmental view. European Journal of Developmental Science (Special Issue on Moral Emotions and Moral Cognitions), 2, 324-339.

Killen, M. (2007). Children’s social and moral reasoning about exclusion. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 16, 32-36.

McGlothlin, H., & Killen, M. (2006). Intergroup attitudes of European American children attending ethnically homogeneous schools. Child Development, 77, 1375-1386.

Killen, M., & Smetana, J.G. (Eds.) (2006). Handbook of moral development. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (Chinese translation, pub date: 2009; Korean translation, pub date: 2010).

Links:

Curriculum Vitae
Social and Moral Development Research Group
The Center for Children, Relationships, and Culture

Email:

mkillen@umd.edu
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