2016
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12582
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Reducing Children's Implicit Racial Bias Through Exposure to Positive Out‐Group Exemplars

Abstract: Studies with adults suggest that implicit preferences favoring White versus Black individuals can be reduced through exposure to positive Black exemplars. However, it remains unclear whether developmental differences exist in the capacity for these biases to be changed. This study included 369 children and examined whether their implicit racial bias would be reduced following exposure to positive Black exemplars. Results showed that children's implicit pro‐White bias was reduced following exposure to positive … Show more

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“…Nevertheless, focusing on people as being distinctive individuals, as opposed to members of groups with collective properties, is one area in which language can be used in smart ways to potentially reduce children’s tendency to form a new conceptually rich social category, and to lower the transmission of bias towards members of the highlighted social group. In support of this idea, introducing people to counter-stereotypic individuals from a certain social group has been one of the most effective ways to reduce implicit bias for both adults [92] and children [93]. …”
Section: Using Malleability Of Social Categorization To Reduce Socialmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Nevertheless, focusing on people as being distinctive individuals, as opposed to members of groups with collective properties, is one area in which language can be used in smart ways to potentially reduce children’s tendency to form a new conceptually rich social category, and to lower the transmission of bias towards members of the highlighted social group. In support of this idea, introducing people to counter-stereotypic individuals from a certain social group has been one of the most effective ways to reduce implicit bias for both adults [92] and children [93]. …”
Section: Using Malleability Of Social Categorization To Reduce Socialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Interesting future questions concern how to leverage the insight gained by studies of bias reduction among adults to create manipulations that are effective with children. Indeed, current research suggests that implicit associations are malleable based on new information [9798], and that similar interventions could be effective for adults and children [9293]. Indeed, efforts to change the structure of social categorization among children may be even more impactful, since children have less experience, meaning their stereotypes and bias may be less entrenched and easier to overcome.…”
Section: Using Malleability Of Social Categorization To Reduce Socialmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As a result, the current literature offers little guidance about how to reduce implicit racial bias in young children (but see Gonzalez, Steele, & Baron, 2016), and leaves open the question of whether any interventions that might lead to a reduction in implicit bias might also affect explicit bias. To fill this significant gap in the literature, we investigated the effects of a novel intervention that involves teaching children to individuate other-race faces.…”
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“…Children will more positively evaluate (Bennett et al, 2004) and less harshly judge (Mulvey, 2016) an in-group versus out-group member. The strength of children's in-group bias is affected by a variety of individual dispositional and environmental factors (Bigler, Jones, & Lobliner, 1997;Howard, Carrazza, & Woodward, 2014), and can be substantially attenuated with exposure to counter-stereotyped individuals (Gonzalez, Steele, & Baron, 2017;Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006). The strength of children's in-group bias is affected by a variety of individual dispositional and environmental factors (Bigler, Jones, & Lobliner, 1997;Howard, Carrazza, & Woodward, 2014), and can be substantially attenuated with exposure to counter-stereotyped individuals (Gonzalez, Steele, & Baron, 2017;Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006).…”
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