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Adam Rutland is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom and has focused their research primarily in the social sciences and psychology fields. Their work substantially covers subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, safety research, experimental and cognitive psychology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The scientist's notable research themes include social and intergroup psychology, career development and diversity, education, achievement, and giftedness, youth development and social support, environmental education and sustainability, bullying, victimization, and aggression, as well as misinformation and its impacts.

Rutland has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Rutland are:

  • STEM gender stereotypes from early childhood through adolescence at informal science centers, 2020, Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • The Relations and Role of Social Competencies and Belonging with Math and Science Interest and Efficacy for Adolescents in Informal STEM Programs, 2020, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Promoting Fair and Just School Environments: Developing Inclusive Youth, 2022, Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Children's Gender Stereotypes in STEM Following a One-Shot Growth Mindset Intervention in a Science Museum, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Minority- and majority-status bystander reactions to, and reasoning about, intergroup social exclusion, 2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

The scientist has collaborated frequently with colleagues such as Luke McGuire, Mark Winterbottom, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Adam Hartstone-Rose, and Fidelia Law. These coauthorship relationships have resulted in numerous joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Social Norms and Self‐Presentation: Children's Implicit and Explicit Intergroup Attitudes

    Adam Rutland;Lindsey Cameron;Alan B. Milne;Peter McGeorge

  • Changing Children's Intergroup Attitudes Toward Refugees: Testing Different Models of Extended Contact

    Lindsey Cameron;Adam Rutland;Rupert Brown;Rebecca Douch

  • Extended contact through story reading in school : Reducing children's prejudice toward the disabled

    Lindsey Cameron;Adam Rutland

  • A New Social-Cognitive Developmental Perspective on Prejudice The Interplay Between Morality and Group Identity

    Adam Rutland;Melanie Killen;Dominic Abrams

  • Children and Social Exclusion: Morality, Prejudice, and Group Identity

    Melanie Killen;Adam Rutland

  • Direct and extended friendship effects on minority and majority children's interethnic attitudes: a longitudinal study.

    Allard R. Feddes;Peter Noack;Adam Rutland

  • A Developmental Science Approach to Reducing Prejudice and Social Exclusion: Intergroup Processes, Social‐Cognitive Development, and Moral Reasoning

    Adam Rutland;Melanie Killen

  • The Development of Subjective Group Dynamics: Children's Judgments of Normative and Deviant In‐Group and Out‐Group Individuals

    Dominic Abrams;Adam Rutland;Lindsey Cameron

  • The development of subjective group dynamics

    Dominic Abrams;Adam Rutland

  • Footedness in world soccer: an analysis of France '98

    David P. Carey;Geoff Smith;Daniel T. Smith;John W. Shepherd

  • Promoting children's positive intergroup attitudes towards stigmatized groups: Extended contact and multiple classification skills training

    Lindsey Cameron;Adam Rutland;Rupert Brown

  • Interracial contact and racial constancy: A multi-site study of racial intergroup bias in 3-5 year old Anglo-British children

    Adam Rutland;Lindsey Cameron;Laura Bennett;Jennifer M. Ferrell

  • Children’s Group Nous: Understanding and Applying Peer Exclusion Within and Between Groups

    Dominic Abrams;Adam Rutland;Joseph Pelletier;Jennifer M Ferrell

  • Development of Intra- and Intergroup Judgments in the Context of Moral and Social-Conventional Norms

    Melanie Killen;Adam Rutland;Dominic Abrams;Kelly Lynn Mulvey

  • The development of national prejudice, in-group favouritism and self-stereotypes in British children

    Adam Rutland

  • The development of subjective group dynamics: When in-group bias gets specific

    Dominic Abrams;Adam Rutland;Lindsey Cameron;Jose M. Marques

  • When and why does extended contact work?: The role of high quality direct contact and group norms in the development of positive ethnic intergroup attitudes amongst children

    Lindsey Cameron;Adam Rutland;Rosa Hossain;Rebecca Petley

  • Children’s Judgments of Disloyal and Immoral Peer Behavior: Subjective Group Dynamics in Minimal Intergroup Contexts

    Dominic Abrams;Adam Rutland;Jennifer M. Ferrell;Joseph Pelletier

  • Older but wilier: In-group accountability and the development of subjective group dynamics.

    Dominic Abrams;Adam Rutland;Lindsey Cameron;Jennifer M. Ferrell

  • Friendship Preferences Among German and Turkish Preadolescents

    Philipp Jugert;Peter Noack;Adam Rutland

Frequent Co-Authors

Melanie Killen
Melanie Killen University of Maryland, College Park
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex
Peter Noack
Peter Noack Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Frances R. Balkwill
Frances R. Balkwill Queen Mary University of London
Drew Nesdale
Drew Nesdale Griffith University
Alan B. Milne
Alan B. Milne University of Aberdeen
Christia Spears Brown
Christia Spears Brown University of Kentucky
Sheri R. Levy
Sheri R. Levy Stony Brook University
Tiffany Yip
Tiffany Yip Fordham University

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