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Children's implicit attitudes toward targets who differ by race and gender
Jennifer R Steele1, Corey Lipman1
1Department of Psychology, York University.
Developmental Psychology
|January 9, 2023
Summary
Children
Area of Science:
- Developmental Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Cognitive Psychology
Background:
- Children's social biases are influenced by how they categorize others.
- Understanding early racial and gender biases is crucial for interventions.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how children categorize targets by race and gender.
- To examine the impact of categorization on children's implicit biases.
Main Methods:
- Children (5-12 years) completed a child-friendly Implicit Association Test (IAT).
- Participants were assigned to conditions emphasizing gender or race categorization.
- Ambiguous-Categorization IAT allowed flexible categorization.
Main Results:
- When categorizing by gender, children favored own-gender Black targets.
- In ambiguous conditions, gender was the primary category, but biases differed by sex.
- Boys showed preference for White girls; girls showed preference for Black girls.
Conclusions:
- Children's social categorization processes influence racial and gender biases.
- Gender can be a more salient category than race for young children.
- Context-dependent categorization strategies shape children's intergroup associations.
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