Cecilia Wainryb
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 110293 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cecilia Wainryb |
| PRENOMES | Cecilia |
| SOBRENOME | Wainryb |
| ASSINATURA | WAINRYB C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6031-4330 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 90 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Adolescents’ Viewpoints on Fair and Unfair Ways to Address Peer Harm in Schools
This study sought to explore what students thought were fair and unfair approaches to addressing peer harm in their school, and how they construct these understandings through their lived experiences. Participants were 33 adolescents (18 girls, 14 boys, 1 other not specified gender; M age = 14.79, SD = 0.90) attending ninth grade in a public urban school in Bogotá, Colombia. Most adolescents were born in Colombia (91%), followed by Venezuela (9%)…
Colombian youths’ reasoning about retributive and restorative justice in the 2016 peace accord
This study investigated Colombian adolescents’ evaluations and expectations about different solutions to seeking justice in the aftermath of group-based harms and how their judgments of solutions were associated with self-reported levels of trust. In individual interviews, 74 adolescents (M age = 16.48 years; 36 girls, 38 boys) in Bogotá, Colombia were presented with scenarios depicting two forms of group harm (involving damage to infrastructure …
Emerging adults’ journeys out of the shutdown
The COVID-19 pandemic has defined the college career for this generation of learners, threatening mental health, identity development, and college functioning. We began tracking the impacts of this pandemic for 633 first-year college students from four U.S. universities ( M age = 18.8 years) in Spring 2020 and followed students to Spring 2023. Students provided narratives about the impacts of COVID-19 and reports of mental health concerns, identi…
Urban Colombian youths' perspectives on the armed conflict and possibilities for ways forward
In the aftermath of intractable armed conflict, adolescents can play a critical role in the process of reconciliation and the construction of a culture of peace. The meanings they construct about these processes are a core aspect of their engagement (or lack thereof) in peace‐building initiatives. This study sought to document adolescents' perspectives on the Colombian armed conflict and the 2016 peace treaty, as well as their preferred resolutio…
College, Interrupted
First-year college students in the 2019-2020 academic year are at risk of having their mental health, identity work, and college careers derailed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. To assess emerging and evolving impacts of the pandemic on mental health/well-being, identity development, and academic resilience, we collected data from a racially, ethnically, geographically, and economically diverse group of 629 students at four universities acr…
Children's and adolescents’ conversations with mothers about offenders’ and victims’ responsibility for harm in their experiences of being hurt by a peer
This study investigated mothers’ and children's constructions of meaning about responsibility for harm in conversations about two experiences when children were hurt by a peer and felt they had either contributed or not contributed to the situation. The sample included 105 Canadian mothers (75% White) and their children (53 girls, 52 boys) across three age groups ( M ages = 6.92, 11.14, 15.89 years). Overall, mothers and children emphasized diffe…
The psychophysiology of narrating distressing experiences
We examined patterns of psychophysiological arousal related to remembering and narrating distressing events, as compared to arousal while engaged in positive and neutral recall tasks. Narrating distressing events entailed increased arousal relative to remembering those events. Analyses of combined data showed that aggregate arousal during narration was related to post-narration reports of distress and self-perceptions. These results support conce…
Adolescents' Retributive and Restorative Orientations in Response to Intergroup Harms in Schools
This mixed-methods study examined how adolescents understand and evaluate different ways to address intergroup harms in schools. In individual interviews, 77 adolescents (M age = 16.49 years; 39 girls, 38 boys) in Bogotá, Colombia, responded to hypothetical vignettes wherein a rival group at school engaged in a transgression against their group. Adolescents reported that students who were harmed should and would talk to school authorities, but al…
Mothers and friends as listeners for adolescent anger narration
Narrating emotional experiences to important others contributes to socioemotional and self-development from early childhood through adulthood. However, to date, almost no work has explored the distinctive ways that different listeners might shape narration, and the socioemotional outcomes of narrating experience. The present study examines how early adolescents (n = 106, age range 12-14, 54 girls, 21% low-income, 7% Latinx, 3% non-White) narrate …
Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents
The present study examined early and middle adolescents’ and emerging adults’ emotions associated with salient experiences of disclosure, concealment, and lying to parents about their routine activities. US middle class youth ( n = 131; M s = 12.74, 15.81, 20.40 years, respectively) recalled a time they disclosed, concealed, and lied to parents; using directed questions, participants were asked to recall their emotions when the events happened an…
“Things like that happen when you come to a new country”
The Juxtaposition of Revenge and Forgiveness in Peer Conflict Experiences of Youth Exposed to Violence
In a sample of 95 urban Colombian mid-adolescents, this mixed-method study examined how youths' retaliatory desires and actions were juxtaposed with forgiveness and nonforgiveness in their narrative accounts of peer conflict. Quantitative analyses examined how retaliatory desire and action were associated with variations in youths' lifetime exposure to violence (ETV) and recent victimization by peers at school. These measures of violence exposure…
Ghosts in the story
Maternal narration about parenting pride and regret is related to youth emotion regulation
As they respond to children's emotions, mothers socialize children's emerging emotion regulation. Mothers' own autobiographical narratives likely reflect in part habitual ways of expressing and managing emotions—ways that may in turn influence the way mothers respond to their children's emotions. We examined features of mothers' narratives about parental pride and regret experiences, and assessed whether these were associated with parental social…
I wanted to hurt her”
This study examined children's and adolescents’ descriptions of wanting and seeking revenge in peer conflicts. A total of 100 youth divided into three age groups (7‐, 11‐, and 16‐year‐olds) were interviewed about experiences in which they wanted to get back at a peer who harmed them. Most youth recalled experiencing retaliatory desires, but typically indicated that such desires were not acted out; 7‐year olds were less likely than older youth to …
To err is human
This study examined children's and adolescents' narrative accounts and evaluations of an instance when they forgave a peer and an instance when they did not forgive, as well as their definitions of what it means to forgive. The sample included 100 participants in three age groups (7‐, 11‐, and 16‐year olds). Regardless of age, forgiveness and non‐forgiveness accounts differed in interpersonal features, such as how they responded when hurt and whe…
Distinctions between experiences of anger and sadness in children's and adolescents' narrative accounts of peer injury
Children's varied emotions following peer injury may reflect distinct ways of understanding and coping with such events. This study examined how children's references to anger and sadness in their accounts of peer injury were differentially related to narrative descriptions of their motivations, interpretations, evaluations, and behavioral responses, as well as the relationships in which harm occurred. We also explored how these associations betw…
I didn’t want to, but then I told”
This study examined 131 U.S. middle class early, middle, and late adolescents' (M age = 12.74, 15.81, and 20.40 years, respectively) narratives regarding experiences of disclosure, concealment, and lying to parents and responses to direct probes about lessons learned about self and parents. The thematic content focused primarily on routine activities and peer experiences, and to a lesser extent, romantic issues, risky or delinquent behavior, and …
Adolescents’ conceptions of wealth and societal fairness amid extreme inequality
This study examined how Argentine adolescents' judgments about the fairness of their society are related to their perceptions of actual and ideal societal wealth distribution, just world beliefs, and trust in political institutions. Six hundred ninety-nine Argentine adolescents from three age groups (12-14 years, 15-16 years, and 17-18 years) in high schools from diverse SES communities were presented with five images depicting more or less egali…
When I hurt others, and when I get hurt
In a social world, occasionally we all will harm others, as well as be harmed. Previous research has focused largely on how perpetration and victimization events are distinct rather than on how they might be integrated with one another, jointly shaping moral agency. We report on an exploratory qualitative analysis of narratives about perpetration and victimization. Our sample included 30 participants divided evenly by gender and age (ages 11–12, …
Conversations about children's transgressions against siblings and friends
This study investigated the moral socialization strategies that mothers use in conversations about their children's experiences of harming their siblings as compared with their friends. The sample included 101 mothers and their 7‐, 11‐, or 16‐year‐old children; each dyad discussed events when the child (a) harmed a younger sibling and (b) harmed a friend (order counterbalanced). Analyses indicated that when children harmed their siblings, mothers…
Stories for all ages
The study's goals were twofold: (a) to examine the effectiveness of narrating an angry experience, compared with relying on distraction or mere reexposure to the experience, for anger reduction across childhood and adolescence, and (b) to identify the features of narratives that are associated with more and less anger reduction for younger and older youths and for boys and girls. Participants were 241 youths (117 boys) between the ages of 8 and 1…
Moral Lives Across Cultures
Saints, and the Rest of Us
In the field of psychology, the construct of moral identity emerged as one response to the perceived gaps between moral judgment and action [Blasi, 1983, 1984]. As such, moral identity was conceptualized as the extent to which being a moral person is important to people’s sense of who they are and who they want to be, and posited to act as an intervening psychological structure between moral thinking and conduct. In other words, it was thought th…
Regulating emotion and identity by narrating harm
On telling the whole story
This article examines age differences from childhood through middle adolescence in the extent to which children include factual and interpretive information in constructing autobiographical memory narratives. Factual information is defined as observable or perceptible information available to all individuals who experience a given event, while interpretive information is defined as information that articulates the desires, emotions, beliefs, and …
Children's, adolescents', and young adults' thinking about different types of disagreements
The construction of moral agency in mother–child conversations about helping and hurting across childhood and adolescence
This study examined mother-child conversations about children's and adolescents' past harmful and helpful actions. The sample included 100 mothers and their 7-, 11-, or 16-year-old children; each dyad discussed events when the child (a) helped a friend and (b) hurt a friend. Analyses suggested that conversations about help may serve to facilitate children's sense of themselves as prosocial moral agents; mothers focused on children's feelings of p…
Adolescents’ conceptions of wealth and societal fairness amid extreme inequality
This study examined how Argentine adolescents' judgments about the fairness of their society are related to their perceptions of actual and ideal societal wealth distribution, just world beliefs, and trust in political institutions. Six hundred ninety-nine Argentine adolescents from three age groups (12-14 years, 15-16 years, and 17-18 years) in high schools from diverse SES communities were presented with five images depicting more or less egali…
Stories for all ages
The study's goals were twofold: (a) to examine the effectiveness of narrating an angry experience, compared with relying on distraction or mere reexposure to the experience, for anger reduction across childhood and adolescence, and (b) to identify the features of narratives that are associated with more and less anger reduction for younger and older youths and for boys and girls. Participants were 241 youths (117 boys) between the ages of 8 and 1…
I didn’t want to, but then I told”
This study examined 131 U.S. middle class early, middle, and late adolescents' (M age = 12.74, 15.81, and 20.40 years, respectively) narratives regarding experiences of disclosure, concealment, and lying to parents and responses to direct probes about lessons learned about self and parents. The thematic content focused primarily on routine activities and peer experiences, and to a lesser extent, romantic issues, risky or delinquent behavior, and …
Regulating emotion and identity by narrating harm
Early and Middle Adolescents' Reasoning About Moral and Personal Concerns in Opposite‐sex Interactions
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…
Mothers and friends as listeners for adolescent anger narration
Narrating emotional experiences to important others contributes to socioemotional and self-development from early childhood through adulthood. However, to date, almost no work has explored the distinctive ways that different listeners might shape narration, and the socioemotional outcomes of narrating experience. The present study examines how early adolescents (n = 106, age range 12-14, 54 girls, 21% low-income, 7% Latinx, 3% non-White) narrate …
Adolescents’ and emerging adults’ reminisces about emotions in the context of disclosing, concealing, and lying to parents
The present study examined early and middle adolescents’ and emerging adults’ emotions associated with salient experiences of disclosure, concealment, and lying to parents about their routine activities. US middle class youth ( n = 131; M s = 12.74, 15.81, 20.40 years, respectively) recalled a time they disclosed, concealed, and lied to parents; using directed questions, participants were asked to recall their emotions when the events happened an…
Conversations about children's transgressions against siblings and friends
This study investigated the moral socialization strategies that mothers use in conversations about their children's experiences of harming their siblings as compared with their friends. The sample included 101 mothers and their 7‐, 11‐, or 16‐year‐old children; each dyad discussed events when the child (a) harmed a younger sibling and (b) harmed a friend (order counterbalanced). Analyses indicated that when children harmed their siblings, mothers…
What I Want and What You Want’
This study examined how children reason about competing personal preferences. Seventy‐two participants (mean ages 5 years 5 months, 10 years 4 months, and 17 years 7 months) considered three hypothetical scenarios in which a protagonist's personal preference was in conflict with her or his friend's personal preference. Scenarios varied in the relative weightiness of each character's desires. Whereas 5‐ and 10‐year‐olds prioritized the friend's pr…
Colombian youths’ reasoning about retributive and restorative justice in the 2016 peace accord
This study investigated Colombian adolescents’ evaluations and expectations about different solutions to seeking justice in the aftermath of group-based harms and how their judgments of solutions were associated with self-reported levels of trust. In individual interviews, 74 adolescents (M age = 16.48 years; 36 girls, 38 boys) in Bogotá, Colombia were presented with scenarios depicting two forms of group harm (involving damage to infrastructure …
Emerging adults’ journeys out of the shutdown
The COVID-19 pandemic has defined the college career for this generation of learners, threatening mental health, identity development, and college functioning. We began tracking the impacts of this pandemic for 633 first-year college students from four U.S. universities ( M age = 18.8 years) in Spring 2020 and followed students to Spring 2023. Students provided narratives about the impacts of COVID-19 and reports of mental health concerns, identi…
Adolescents' Retributive and Restorative Orientations in Response to Intergroup Harms in Schools
This mixed-methods study examined how adolescents understand and evaluate different ways to address intergroup harms in schools. In individual interviews, 77 adolescents (M age = 16.49 years; 39 girls, 38 boys) in Bogotá, Colombia, responded to hypothetical vignettes wherein a rival group at school engaged in a transgression against their group. Adolescents reported that students who were harmed should and would talk to school authorities, but al…
The Juxtaposition of Revenge and Forgiveness in Peer Conflict Experiences of Youth Exposed to Violence
In a sample of 95 urban Colombian mid-adolescents, this mixed-method study examined how youths' retaliatory desires and actions were juxtaposed with forgiveness and nonforgiveness in their narrative accounts of peer conflict. Quantitative analyses examined how retaliatory desire and action were associated with variations in youths' lifetime exposure to violence (ETV) and recent victimization by peers at school. These measures of violence exposure…
I wanted to hurt her”
This study examined children's and adolescents’ descriptions of wanting and seeking revenge in peer conflicts. A total of 100 youth divided into three age groups (7‐, 11‐, and 16‐year‐olds) were interviewed about experiences in which they wanted to get back at a peer who harmed them. Most youth recalled experiencing retaliatory desires, but typically indicated that such desires were not acted out; 7‐year olds were less likely than older youth to …
To err is human
This study examined children's and adolescents' narrative accounts and evaluations of an instance when they forgave a peer and an instance when they did not forgive, as well as their definitions of what it means to forgive. The sample included 100 participants in three age groups (7‐, 11‐, and 16‐year olds). Regardless of age, forgiveness and non‐forgiveness accounts differed in interpersonal features, such as how they responded when hurt and whe…
Distinctions between experiences of anger and sadness in children's and adolescents' narrative accounts of peer injury
Children's varied emotions following peer injury may reflect distinct ways of understanding and coping with such events. This study examined how children's references to anger and sadness in their accounts of peer injury were differentially related to narrative descriptions of their motivations, interpretations, evaluations, and behavioral responses, as well as the relationships in which harm occurred. We also explored how these associations betw…
Open Education and Reading Comprehension of High‐ability and Low‐ability Elementary School Pupils
S ummary . Effects of open education on reading comprehension assignments involving both high inference and low inference items were assessed. Seven hundred and thirty‐three primary school children stratified by instructional methods, grade levels, and cognitive ability participated in the study. Open education pupils of both higher and lower IQ levels manifested higher performance than students of traditional classes on all four reading comprehe…
The Application of Moral Judgments to Other Cultures
The mismeasure of diversity
Examination of the local manifestations of diversity within cultures furthers the study of cross-cultural differences
Tolerance and Intolerance
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
Values and truths
Independence and interdependence in diverse cultural contexts
In this chapter, we propose that the individualistic-collectivistic construct ignores cultural complexities, and we illustrate our points by using examples from our empirical research conducted in Japan, Colombia, and the Middle East
Children's, adolescents', and young adults' thinking about different types of disagreements
The Study of Diversity in Human Development
The emphasis on the study of diversity, a growing area of research in develop-mental psychology, reflects an increasing awareness of the need to recognize the value of the differences among people. This changing climate has stimulated a de-bate about what many scholars perceive to be the shortcomings of epistemological and methodological perspectives that have dominated the field of child develop-ment throughout the second part of the twentieth c…
Developing Moral Agency through Narrative
This paper poses the following question: When, in spite of knowing that it is wrong, people go on to hurt others, what does this mean for the development of moral agency? We begin by defining moral agency and briefly sketching relations between moral agency and other concepts. We then outline what three extant literatures suggest about this question: social domain theory, moral intuitionist theories, and theories of moral identity development. Bu…
On telling the whole story
This article examines age differences from childhood through middle adolescence in the extent to which children include factual and interpretive information in constructing autobiographical memory narratives. Factual information is defined as observable or perceptible information available to all individuals who experience a given event, while interpretive information is defined as information that articulates the desires, emotions, beliefs, and …
Youths Making Sense of Political Conflict
Review Articles| April 15 2011 Youths Making Sense of Political Conflict: Considering Protective and Maladaptive Possibilities: Essay Review of Adolescents and War: How Youth Deal with Political Violence by B.K. Barber, Human Development and Political Violence by C. Daiute, and Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth by P.L. Hammack Subject Area: Psychiatry and Psychology , Women's and Chil…
‘And So They Ordered Me to Kill a Person’
Approximately 300,000 child soldiers serve in various armed groups around the world, and become directly implicated in the perpetration of kidnappings, killings, and torture. Considering that children construct moral concepts and a sense of themselves as moral beings in the context of their everyday interactions with others, the concern with how their harrowing experiences of violence may affect their moral development is particularly compelling.…
What I Want and What You Want’
This study examined how children reason about competing personal preferences. Seventy‐two participants (mean ages 5 years 5 months, 10 years 4 months, and 17 years 7 months) considered three hypothetical scenarios in which a protagonist's personal preference was in conflict with her or his friend's personal preference. Scenarios varied in the relative weightiness of each character's desires. Whereas 5‐ and 10‐year‐olds prioritized the friend's pr…
Relations Between Narrative Construction of Ethnicity-Based Discrimination and Ethnic Identity Exploration and Pride
Narrative identity work can offer fruitful insights into how individuals explore ethnic identity and develop a sense of ethnic pride. This study examined links between status and narrative approaches to ethnic identity development in a small sample of ethnically diverse college students. Findings revealed few differences in narratives about ethnicity-based discrimination between majority ethnicity (n = 41) and minority ethnicity participants (n =…
Early and Middle Adolescents' Reasoning About Moral and Personal Concerns in Opposite‐sex Interactions
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…
The construction of moral agency in mother–child conversations about helping and hurting across childhood and adolescence
This study examined mother-child conversations about children's and adolescents' past harmful and helpful actions. The sample included 100 mothers and their 7-, 11-, or 16-year-old children; each dyad discussed events when the child (a) helped a friend and (b) hurt a friend. Analyses suggested that conversations about help may serve to facilitate children's sense of themselves as prosocial moral agents; mothers focused on children's feelings of p…
Moral Lives Across Cultures
Saints, and the Rest of Us
In the field of psychology, the construct of moral identity emerged as one response to the perceived gaps between moral judgment and action [Blasi, 1983, 1984]. As such, moral identity was conceptualized as the extent to which being a moral person is important to people’s sense of who they are and who they want to be, and posited to act as an intervening psychological structure between moral thinking and conduct. In other words, it was thought th…
Regulating emotion and identity by narrating harm
When I hurt others, and when I get hurt
In a social world, occasionally we all will harm others, as well as be harmed. Previous research has focused largely on how perpetration and victimization events are distinct rather than on how they might be integrated with one another, jointly shaping moral agency. We report on an exploratory qualitative analysis of narratives about perpetration and victimization. Our sample included 30 participants divided evenly by gender and age (ages 11–12, …
Conversations about children's transgressions against siblings and friends
This study investigated the moral socialization strategies that mothers use in conversations about their children's experiences of harming their siblings as compared with their friends. The sample included 101 mothers and their 7‐, 11‐, or 16‐year‐old children; each dyad discussed events when the child (a) harmed a younger sibling and (b) harmed a friend (order counterbalanced). Analyses indicated that when children harmed their siblings, mothers…
Stories for all ages
The study's goals were twofold: (a) to examine the effectiveness of narrating an angry experience, compared with relying on distraction or mere reexposure to the experience, for anger reduction across childhood and adolescence, and (b) to identify the features of narratives that are associated with more and less anger reduction for younger and older youths and for boys and girls. Participants were 241 youths (117 boys) between the ages of 8 and 1…
Ghosts in the story
Maternal narration about parenting pride and regret is related to youth emotion regulation
As they respond to children's emotions, mothers socialize children's emerging emotion regulation. Mothers' own autobiographical narratives likely reflect in part habitual ways of expressing and managing emotions—ways that may in turn influence the way mothers respond to their children's emotions. We examined features of mothers' narratives about parental pride and regret experiences, and assessed whether these were associated with parental social…
I wanted to hurt her”
This study examined children's and adolescents’ descriptions of wanting and seeking revenge in peer conflicts. A total of 100 youth divided into three age groups (7‐, 11‐, and 16‐year‐olds) were interviewed about experiences in which they wanted to get back at a peer who harmed them. Most youth recalled experiencing retaliatory desires, but typically indicated that such desires were not acted out; 7‐year olds were less likely than older youth to …
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