Mark Bennett
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609215 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Bennett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Bennett |
| SIGNATURE | BENNETT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Dundee |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9934-9872 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Parents and Children Should Be More Active Together to Address Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviours
Increasing rates of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviours among children and the youth are important determinants of chronic disease. Supporting children's participation in organised physical activities like sports has been promoted as a public health strategy to increase physical activity. Evidence shows that successful interventions are family-focused, although research on how parental eating and physical activity behaviours influence ch…
The Illusory Trust Doctrine
"A document is put before us. Does it or does it not create a trust?" This article considers the illusory trust doctrine (ITD) and claims that although the ITD has been criticised as doctrinally unfounded and therefore based in substantive, non-legal reasons rather than pre-existing law, there are formal reasons of trusts law to support it. It begins by considering Atiyah and Summers' concepts of form and substance, and then examines how they app…
Portrayals of the British militia, 1852-1916
This article explores how perceived inefficiencies and inadequacies in the militia were reflected in contemporary works of fiction and satire. The militia's public image was consistently poor: half-trained battalions, staffed by inefficient senior officers, chronically short of subalterns and recruiting from the very worst elements of the working class. It suffered from the combined flaws of both regulars and volunteers, but was unable to benefit…
Intergroup Social Exclusion in Childhood
Humans are a profoundly social species, aligning with groups, forming group identification, and navigating the social world. One of the complex tasks of childhood is to understand when exclusion is necessary to make groups work well, and when it is wrong, creating unnecessary harm or unfairness. In this volume the authors grapple with many new aspects of exclusion not previously documented by taking a developmental and social psychological approa…
Engaging North Korea with Highculture Soft Power
The Internalisation of Group Identities in Childhood
Group entitativity and its perceptual antecedents in varieties of groups
The present study sought to determine whether children discriminate between different group types with respect to perceived entitativity, and if so, whether the group properties that determine their perceptions of entitativity differ from those of adults. Ten‐year‐old children and adults were required to rate 12 social groups on a number of properties, including entitativity. In a further task, participants also sorted 30 social groups into discr…
On the robustness of the group reference effect
Extending the self‐reference effect to the level of group identities, previous research has shown that participants' encoding of trait adjectives with reference to ingroups facilitates recall relative to a control condition in which judgments are made about adjectives' meanings. We contend that this experimental comparison may have exaggerated the extent of the group reference effect . Two studies are reported that examine this contention. In Stu…
Children's inclusion of the group in the self
Three studies are reported that assess 5-, 7- and 10-year-old children's cognitive inclusion of the ingroup in the self. Each study investigated a different ingroup: gender, family, and age group. Children were shown sets of cards identifying particular trait adjectives and were asked to rate the extent to which the traits applied to the self, the ingroup, and the outgroup. After a distraction task, they were asked to remember for whom (self, ing…
Simplifying Second‐order Belief Attribution
This study investigated how 4‐ to 7‐year‐old children’s second‐order belief attribution might be facilitated by either reducing information processing or varying the sequence of task questions. In Experiment 1, compared with Perner and Wimmer’s (1985 ) original second‐order false‐belief task, a new task with reduced information‐processing demands promoted better second‐order reasoning. In Experiment 2, half the stories included a second‐order ign…
Societal Cognition
Contextual Variation in Stereotype Content
Drawing upon self‐categorization theory, we predicted that the content of children's stereotypes concerning the gender ingroup would be contextually variable. Two studies are reported, each looking at five‐, seven‐, and 10‐year‐old children's stereotypes of the gender in‐group in two different contexts. Study 1 examined judgements of the perceived central tendency of the in‐group on specified dimensions. Study 2 addressed judgements of perceived …
Societal Cognition
Development of the Social Self
Young Children's Evaluations of the Ingroup and of Outgroups
In investigating intergroup attitudes, previous research in developmental psychology has frequently confounded ingroup favouritism and outgroup derogation. The present study, using unconfounded measures, examines the possibility that ingroup favouritism and outgroup derogation are distinct phenomena. Six‐year‐old children (n = 594) from five, culturally diverse nations were asked to make various evaluations of the national ingroup and of four nat…
Contextual Variability in Young Children’s Gender Ingroup Stereotype
Self‐categorization theorists (Oakes, Haslam & Turner, 1994) have shown that stereotypes are not rigid and fixed, and that they vary to reflect variations in the comparative context within which they are formed. In this paper we investigate stereotype variability in a sample of 6/7‐year‐old children. Participants describe a specific outgroup, and then describe the ingroup (that is ‘boys’ or ‘girls’, depending on the sex of the participant). There…
The Role of Second‐Order Belief‐Understanding and Social Context in Children’s Self‐Attribution of Social Emotions
Children’s self‐attribution of social emotions was hypothesised (i) to be related to their second‐order belief‐understanding and (ii) to be more strongly related to social‐ conventional than moral rule violations. Thirty children aged between 4 and 7 years were presented with Sullivan, Zaitchik & Tager‐Flusberg’s (1994) second‐order false belief task and with four hypothetical scenarios in which they were required to imagine that they had violate…
Children's understanding of extended identity
As adults, we appreciate that judgments of us may reflect our associations with other people. This article examines the development of "extended identity" (G.R. Semin & K. Papadopoulou, 1989) in children between 5 and 11 years. In Experiment 1, children were presented with hypothetical scenarios in which they imagined a close associate had committed a rule violation in a highly public context. Only the older children judged that they would be eva…
Children's subjective identification with the group and in-group favoritism
Recent developments in social psychology have explained children's preference for members of the in-group in terms of processes of self-categorization and identification with the in-group. In contrast, this study, addressing nationality self-conceptions, examines the possibility that even before subjective identification with the group has occurred, as de facto group members, children will have been exposed to a great deal of positive information…
Complex belief‐desire reasoning in children
Previous research concerned with children's belief‐desire psychology has examined the capacity to predict or interpret action on the basis of the implicit proposition that ‘when an actor desires a particular end and believes that a particular action will achieve that end, he or she will undertake that action’. The limitations of this formulation for understanding acts of omission are outlined and an elaborated version of belief‐desire psychology …
Children's subjective identification with the group and in-group favoritism
Recent developments in social psychology have explained children's preference for members of the in-group in terms of processes of self-categorization and identification with the in-group. In contrast, this study, addressing nationality self-conceptions, examines the possibility that even before subjective identification with the group has occurred, as de facto group members, children will have been exposed to a great deal of positive information…
Young Children's Evaluations of the Ingroup and of Outgroups
In investigating intergroup attitudes, previous research in developmental psychology has frequently confounded ingroup favouritism and outgroup derogation. The present study, using unconfounded measures, examines the possibility that ingroup favouritism and outgroup derogation are distinct phenomena. Six‐year‐old children (n = 594) from five, culturally diverse nations were asked to make various evaluations of the national ingroup and of four nat…
Children's understanding of extended identity
As adults, we appreciate that judgments of us may reflect our associations with other people. This article examines the development of "extended identity" (G.R. Semin & K. Papadopoulou, 1989) in children between 5 and 11 years. In Experiment 1, children were presented with hypothetical scenarios in which they imagined a close associate had committed a rule violation in a highly public context. Only the older children judged that they would be eva…
Children's inclusion of the group in the self
Three studies are reported that assess 5-, 7- and 10-year-old children's cognitive inclusion of the ingroup in the self. Each study investigated a different ingroup: gender, family, and age group. Children were shown sets of cards identifying particular trait adjectives and were asked to rate the extent to which the traits applied to the self, the ingroup, and the outgroup. After a distraction task, they were asked to remember for whom (self, ing…
The Role of Second‐Order Belief‐Understanding and Social Context in Children’s Self‐Attribution of Social Emotions
Children’s self‐attribution of social emotions was hypothesised (i) to be related to their second‐order belief‐understanding and (ii) to be more strongly related to social‐ conventional than moral rule violations. Thirty children aged between 4 and 7 years were presented with Sullivan, Zaitchik & Tager‐Flusberg’s (1994) second‐order false belief task and with four hypothetical scenarios in which they were required to imagine that they had violate…
Intergroup Social Exclusion in Childhood
Humans are a profoundly social species, aligning with groups, forming group identification, and navigating the social world. One of the complex tasks of childhood is to understand when exclusion is necessary to make groups work well, and when it is wrong, creating unnecessary harm or unfairness. In this volume the authors grapple with many new aspects of exclusion not previously documented by taking a developmental and social psychological approa…
Group entitativity and its perceptual antecedents in varieties of groups
The present study sought to determine whether children discriminate between different group types with respect to perceived entitativity, and if so, whether the group properties that determine their perceptions of entitativity differ from those of adults. Ten‐year‐old children and adults were required to rate 12 social groups on a number of properties, including entitativity. In a further task, participants also sorted 30 social groups into discr…
Simplifying Second‐order Belief Attribution
This study investigated how 4‐ to 7‐year‐old children’s second‐order belief attribution might be facilitated by either reducing information processing or varying the sequence of task questions. In Experiment 1, compared with Perner and Wimmer’s (1985 ) original second‐order false‐belief task, a new task with reduced information‐processing demands promoted better second‐order reasoning. In Experiment 2, half the stories included a second‐order ign…
Societal Cognition
Societal Cognition
Complex belief‐desire reasoning in children
Previous research concerned with children's belief‐desire psychology has examined the capacity to predict or interpret action on the basis of the implicit proposition that ‘when an actor desires a particular end and believes that a particular action will achieve that end, he or she will undertake that action’. The limitations of this formulation for understanding acts of omission are outlined and an elaborated version of belief‐desire psychology …
Children's understanding of extended identity
As adults, we appreciate that judgments of us may reflect our associations with other people. This article examines the development of "extended identity" (G.R. Semin & K. Papadopoulou, 1989) in children between 5 and 11 years. In Experiment 1, children were presented with hypothetical scenarios in which they imagined a close associate had committed a rule violation in a highly public context. Only the older children judged that they would be eva…
Children's subjective identification with the group and in-group favoritism
Recent developments in social psychology have explained children's preference for members of the in-group in terms of processes of self-categorization and identification with the in-group. In contrast, this study, addressing nationality self-conceptions, examines the possibility that even before subjective identification with the group has occurred, as de facto group members, children will have been exposed to a great deal of positive information…
The Role of Second‐Order Belief‐Understanding and Social Context in Children’s Self‐Attribution of Social Emotions
Children’s self‐attribution of social emotions was hypothesised (i) to be related to their second‐order belief‐understanding and (ii) to be more strongly related to social‐ conventional than moral rule violations. Thirty children aged between 4 and 7 years were presented with Sullivan, Zaitchik & Tager‐Flusberg’s (1994) second‐order false belief task and with four hypothetical scenarios in which they were required to imagine that they had violate…
Contextual Variability in Young Children’s Gender Ingroup Stereotype
Self‐categorization theorists (Oakes, Haslam & Turner, 1994) have shown that stereotypes are not rigid and fixed, and that they vary to reflect variations in the comparative context within which they are formed. In this paper we investigate stereotype variability in a sample of 6/7‐year‐old children. Participants describe a specific outgroup, and then describe the ingroup (that is ‘boys’ or ‘girls’, depending on the sex of the participant). There…
Development of the Social Self
Young Children's Evaluations of the Ingroup and of Outgroups
In investigating intergroup attitudes, previous research in developmental psychology has frequently confounded ingroup favouritism and outgroup derogation. The present study, using unconfounded measures, examines the possibility that ingroup favouritism and outgroup derogation are distinct phenomena. Six‐year‐old children (n = 594) from five, culturally diverse nations were asked to make various evaluations of the national ingroup and of four nat…
Simplifying Second‐order Belief Attribution
This study investigated how 4‐ to 7‐year‐old children’s second‐order belief attribution might be facilitated by either reducing information processing or varying the sequence of task questions. In Experiment 1, compared with Perner and Wimmer’s (1985 ) original second‐order false‐belief task, a new task with reduced information‐processing demands promoted better second‐order reasoning. In Experiment 2, half the stories included a second‐order ign…
Societal Cognition
Contextual Variation in Stereotype Content
Drawing upon self‐categorization theory, we predicted that the content of children's stereotypes concerning the gender ingroup would be contextually variable. Two studies are reported, each looking at five‐, seven‐, and 10‐year‐old children's stereotypes of the gender in‐group in two different contexts. Study 1 examined judgements of the perceived central tendency of the in‐group on specified dimensions. Study 2 addressed judgements of perceived …
Societal Cognition
Children's inclusion of the group in the self
Three studies are reported that assess 5-, 7- and 10-year-old children's cognitive inclusion of the ingroup in the self. Each study investigated a different ingroup: gender, family, and age group. Children were shown sets of cards identifying particular trait adjectives and were asked to rate the extent to which the traits applied to the self, the ingroup, and the outgroup. After a distraction task, they were asked to remember for whom (self, ing…
Group entitativity and its perceptual antecedents in varieties of groups
The present study sought to determine whether children discriminate between different group types with respect to perceived entitativity, and if so, whether the group properties that determine their perceptions of entitativity differ from those of adults. Ten‐year‐old children and adults were required to rate 12 social groups on a number of properties, including entitativity. In a further task, participants also sorted 30 social groups into discr…
On the robustness of the group reference effect
Extending the self‐reference effect to the level of group identities, previous research has shown that participants' encoding of trait adjectives with reference to ingroups facilitates recall relative to a control condition in which judgments are made about adjectives' meanings. We contend that this experimental comparison may have exaggerated the extent of the group reference effect . Two studies are reported that examine this contention. In Stu…
The Internalisation of Group Identities in Childhood
Intergroup Social Exclusion in Childhood
Humans are a profoundly social species, aligning with groups, forming group identification, and navigating the social world. One of the complex tasks of childhood is to understand when exclusion is necessary to make groups work well, and when it is wrong, creating unnecessary harm or unfairness. In this volume the authors grapple with many new aspects of exclusion not previously documented by taking a developmental and social psychological approa…
Engaging North Korea with Highculture Soft Power
Portrayals of the British militia, 1852-1916
This article explores how perceived inefficiencies and inadequacies in the militia were reflected in contemporary works of fiction and satire. The militia's public image was consistently poor: half-trained battalions, staffed by inefficient senior officers, chronically short of subalterns and recruiting from the very worst elements of the working class. It suffered from the combined flaws of both regulars and volunteers, but was unable to benefit…
The Illusory Trust Doctrine
"A document is put before us. Does it or does it not create a trust?" This article considers the illusory trust doctrine (ITD) and claims that although the ITD has been criticised as doctrinally unfounded and therefore based in substantive, non-legal reasons rather than pre-existing law, there are formal reasons of trusts law to support it. It begins by considering Atiyah and Summers' concepts of form and substance, and then examines how they app…
Parents and Children Should Be More Active Together to Address Physical Inactivity and Sedentary Behaviours
Increasing rates of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviours among children and the youth are important determinants of chronic disease. Supporting children's participation in organised physical activities like sports has been promoted as a public health strategy to increase physical activity. Evidence shows that successful interventions are family-focused, although research on how parental eating and physical activity behaviours influence ch…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (10 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (7 works) · Cognition (6 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 works) · Ingroups and outgroups (6 works) · Context (archaeology (5 works)