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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Intergroup Relations

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  • Implicit racial bias in children can manifest as more negative associations with other-race individuals.
  • Individuation training, which emphasizes seeing other-race individuals as distinct, shows promise in reducing this bias.
  • The specific components of these interventions crucial for effectiveness remain largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether differentiating multiple other-race individuals, versus a single other-race individual, is necessary for reducing implicit racial bias in children.
  • To compare the effectiveness of a multi-individual differentiation training versus a single-individual training on implicit racial bias.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a between-subject design with 4-to-6-year-old Chinese children (N=66).
  • Children engaged in 2-minute coordinated movement activities with Black instructors.
  • Two conditions: 'differentiation' (four distinct Black instructors) and 'no-differentiation' (one Black instructor).
  • Implicit bias measured using the Implicit Racial Bias Test (IRBT), adapted for young children.

Main Results:

  • A significant reduction in implicit bias against Black people was observed in the differentiation condition.
  • No significant reduction in implicit bias was found in the no-differentiation condition.
  • Findings indicate that exposure to and differentiation among multiple other-race individuals is critical.

Conclusions:

  • Learning to differentiate among multiple individuals of another race plays a critical role in reducing children's implicit racial bias.
  • Interventions focusing on distinguishing multiple other-race individuals are more effective than those focusing on a single individual.
  • Highlights the importance of perceptual individuation in mitigating early-age racial biases.