Melanie Killen

General Research Area:

Moral reasoning about intergroup relationships; developmental social cognition; children's and adolescents' evaluations of group inclusion and exclusion; racial bias; explicit and implicit judgments; cultural influences on development.

Areas of Student Supervision:

Developmental social cognition, moral reasoning, developmental intergroup relationships, children’s concepts of group inclusion and exclusion.

Recent Publications:

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

Killen, M., Margie, N.G., & Sinno, S. (2006). Morality in the context of intergroup relationships. In  M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.). Handbook of moral development. (pp. 155-183). Mahwah , NJ : LEA.

Links:

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

Email:

mkillen@umd.edu
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