Kelly Kirkland

Testing the bounds of compassion in young children.

James N Kirby, Kelly Kirkland, Matti Wilks, Mitchell Green, Porntida Tanjitpiyanond, Nafisa Chowdhury, Mark Nielsen

Journal article  |  2023  |  R Soc Open Sci

Extensive research shows that, under the right circumstances, children are highly prosocial. Extending an already published paradi..

Social mindfulness predicts concern for nature and immigrants across 36 nations.

Kelly Kirkland, Paul AM Van Lange, Niels J Van Doesum, Cesar Acevedo-Triana, Catherine E Amiot, Liisi Ausmees, Peter Baguma, Oumar Barry, Maja Becker, Michal Bilewicz, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Thomas Castelain, Giulio Costantini, Girts Dimdins, Agustín Espinosa, Gillian Finchilescu, Ronald Fischer, Malte Friese, Ángel Gómez, Roberto González, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  Sci Rep

People cooperate every day in ways that range from largescale contributions that mitigate climate change to simple actions such as..

Moral Expansiveness Around the World: The Role of Societal Factors Across 36 Countries

Kelly Kirkland, Charlie R Crimston, Jolanda Jetten, Maksim Rudnev, Cesar Acevedo-Triana, Catherine E Amiot, Liisi Ausmees, Peter Baguma, Oumar Barry, Maja Becker, Michal Bilewicz, Watcharaporn Boonyasiriwat, Thomas Castelain, Giulio Costantini, Girts Dimdins, Agustin Espinosa, Gillian Finchilescu, Ronald Fischer, Malte Friese, Maria Cecilia Gastardo-Conaco, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PERSONALITY SCIENCE

What are the things that we think matter morally, and how do societal factors influence this? To date, research has explored sever..

Promoting prosocial behavior in an unequal world.

Kelly Kirkland, Jolanda Jetten, Matti Wilks, James Kirby

Journal article  |  2022  |  Front Psychol

Amid a global pandemic and the climate crisis, there is an increasing need to understand how to promote largescale, coordinated ac..

Consequences of Economic Inequality for the Social and Political Vitality of Society: A Social Identity Analysis

Jolanda Jetten, Kim Peters, Belen Alvarez, Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara, Michael Dare, Kelly Kirkland, Angel Sanchez-Rodriguez, Hema Preya Selvanathan, Stefanie Sprong, Porntida Tanjitpiyanond, Zhechen Wang, Frank Mols

Journal article  |  2021  |  POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Economic inequality has been found to have pernicious effects, reducing mental and physical health, decreasing societal cohesion, ..

How economic inequality affects prosocial behavior in children across development

Kelly Kirkland, Jolanda Jetten, Matti Wilks, Mark Nielsen

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY

Research has linked economically unequal environments to lower prosocial behavior in adults. However, we know little about how ine..

Children's experience of economic inequality: How earning position influences prosocial behavior

Kelly Kirkland, Jolanda Jetten, Matti Wilks, Mark Nielsen

Journal article  |  2021  |  COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Across two experiments, children aged 4–6 years (N = 120) played a series of games with six puppets where each accrued tokens to e..

The effect of economic inequality on young children's prosocial decision-making

Kelly Kirkland, Jolanda Jetten, Mark Nielsen

Journal article  |  2020  |  BRITISH JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

An emerging body of literature has documented the negative implications high economic inequality can have on children's social and..

It's in the bag: mobile containers in human evolution and child development

Thomas Suddendorf, Kelly Kirkland, Adam Bulley, Jonathan Redshaw, Michelle C Langley

Journal article  |  2020  |  Evolutionary Human Sciences

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But That's Not Fair! The Experience of Economic Inequality from a Child's Perspective

Kelly Kirkland, Jolanda Jetten, Mark Nielsen

Book Chapter  |  2019