Leigh A Shaw

Biographic Data

ID5760675
NAMELeigh A Shaw
GIVEN NAMESLeigh A
FAMILY NAMEShaw
SIGNATURESHAW L A
AFFILIATIONSWeber State University
ORCID0009-0003-6888-0980
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS26
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX2

  • Young adults in the United States and Benin reason about gendered cultural traditions

    Open AccessClare Conry‐Murray, Leigh A ShawARTICLESocial Development2016References: 8

    This study explored emerging and young adults’ reasoning about cultural practices in West Africa. American (Study 1, n = 78, M = 20.76 years) and Beninese (Study 2, n = 93, M = 23.61 years) undergraduates were surveyed about their evaluations of corporal punishment, scarification, and schooling restrictions in conditions where the practices had gender‐neutral or gender‐specified targets. In Study 1, the majority (69%) of American participants neg…

  • Early and Middle Adolescents' Reasoning About Moral and Personal Concerns in Opposite‐sex Interactions

    Open AccessLeigh A Shaw, Cecilia Wainryb et al.ARTICLESocial Development2014Cited by: 3References: 3

    This study examined how adolescents coordinate personal and moral concerns in reasoning about opposite‐sex interactions. Sixty‐four early and middle adolescents ( M s = 12.74, 16.05 years) were individually interviewed about two hypothetical situations involving opposite‐sex interactions (commenting on appearance, initiating a date), presented in four conditions that varied the salience of personal vs. moral concerns. Overall, participants viewed…

  • Risk Taking in Late Adolescence

    Open AccessLeigh A Shaw, Eric Amsel et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2011Cited by: 1References: 3

    This study explored relations among late adolescents' sociomoral reasoning about risk taking, risk stance, and behavior. One‐hundred and thirty‐two participants (18–20‐year‐olds) were surveyed about their own risk stance (Avoidant, Opportunistic, Curious, Risk Seeking) and behavior in three realms (Alcohol Use, Drug Use, Reckless Driving), and sociomoral reasoning about hypothetical risk taking in a baseline scenario with no social domain informa…

  • Children's, adolescents', and young adults' thinking about different types of disagreements

    Cecilia Wainryb, Leigh A Shaw et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2001Cited by: 22References: 22

  • Tolerance and Intolerance

    Cecilia Wainryb, Leigh A Shaw et al.ARTICLEChild Development1998

    Cecilia Wainryb, Leigh A. Shaw, Camelia Maianu, Tolerance and Intolerance: Children's and Adolescents' Judgments of Dissenting Beliefs, Speech, Persons, and Conduct, Child Development, Vol. 69, No. 6 (Dec., 1998), pp. 1541-1555