Social Development Lab

The main aim of the lab focuses on children’s discrimination in everyday situations and how we can reduce discrimination. Because discrimination takes place in emotional and moral contexts, we also focus on emotion and moral development.

Lab Director

Professor Harriet Tenenbaum

Professor in Developmental and Social Psychology

Research

Surrey Scorchers and school children

Social exclusion

This project examined children’s and adolescents’ reasoning about the exclusion of others in peer and school contexts.

School children

Teaching gender equality: A toolkit for teachers

This project is developing a toolkit to teach gender equity in schools based on our previous research.

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Gender and parents

This project examines how children develop gender stereotypes.

Boy screaming

Emotion development

This work examined how children learn physical and moral disgust.

School children standing around their teacher who is reading a book

Teaching democratic competences

This project examined the effectiveness of teaching democratic competences to children.

Lab members

Mafalda Batista Da Costa

2019 - present (joint first supervisor)

Dr Jazmin Bhangoo

2019 - present (second supervisor)

Rosie Brett

2020 - present (joint first supervisor)

Andrea Kocis

PhD student

Silvia Miele

2019 - present (first supervisor)

Yao Wu

2019 - present (first supervisor)

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