Laura Elenbaas
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
61
Citations
1,808
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
15
Publishing since 2012
Laura Elenbaas studies how children and parents in the U.S. and U.K. understand and respond to social class, race, and inequality, including how kids form ideas about fairness, group belonging, and social status. Her work often looks at how family communication and stereotypes shape children's peer relationships and attitudes about economic and racial disparities. Much of this research uses developmental psychology methods to track how these views change with age, roughly from early childhood through adolescence.
Publication output has been relatively steady over the past decade, with modest year-to-year fluctuations but no clear long-term increase or decline, averaging about 3 publications per year over the last five years.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- “The ball is in his court. It’s up to him”: Parental communication about meritocracy.
Developmental Psychology · 2025
- Mean, Pushy, Reckless, and Different: US Parents’ Stereotypes Generate Discomfort With Their Children's Intergroup Peer Interactions
Social Development · 2025
- Social Class Identity Project
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2025
- Mean, Pushy, Reckless, and Different: U.S. Parents’ Stereotypes Generate Discomfort with their Children’s Intergroup Peer Interactions
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2025
- “Honestly, they are just like us”: U.S. parents choose middle-class gender and racial ingroup peers for their children.
Developmental Psychology · 2024
- Social class group identity, intergroup attitudes, and views on social mobility and inequality in the U.K. and the U.S.
Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy · 2024
- “Honestly, they are just like us”: U.S. Parents Choose Middle Class Gender and Racial Ingroup Peers for their Children
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2024
- Social Class Group Identity, Intergroup Attitudes, and Views on Social Mobility and Inequality in the U.K. and the U.S.
OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints) · 2024
- Eight‐ to 12‐year‐old US children's emerging subjective social status identity and intergroup attitudes
Social Development · 2023
- Someone who knows and someone I trust: Investigating how and with whom U.S. 8- to 14-year-old youth seek to learn about racial inequality.
Developmental Psychology · 2023
- Testing the effectiveness of the <i>Developing Inclusive Youth</i> program: A multisite randomized control trial
Child Development · 2022
- “This kid looks like he has everything”: 3- to 11-year-old children’s concerns for fairness and social preferences when peers differ in social class and race
Child Development · 2022
- Developmental Perspectives on Social Inequalities and Human Rights
Human Development · 2022
- Social Inequalities and Morality
2022
- It’s All in the Family: Parents’ Economic Worries and Youth’s Perceptions of Financial Stress and Educational Outcomes
Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2021
- Developmental Psychology×8
- Child Development×7
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology×4
- OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)×4
- Human Development×2
- Philip J. Mazzocco
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Eliot R. Smith
Social Sciences · Indiana University
- Riana M. Brown
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Elisabeth S. Noland
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
- Dorainne J. Green
Social Sciences · Indiana University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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