Children's Implicit Attitudes toward Targets Who Differ by Race and Gender

Autor/inn/en	Steele, Jennifer R.; Lipman, Corey
Titel	Children's Implicit Attitudes toward Targets Who Differ by Race and Gender
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 59 (2023) 5, S.908-917 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Steele, Jennifer R.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001505
Schlagwörter	Childrens Attitudes; Racism; Gender Bias; Whites; Foreign Countries; Gender Differences; Association Measures; Social Cognition; Asians; Indigenous Populations; Multiracial Persons; Ethnicity; Canada; Implicit Association Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassismus; Geschlechterstereotyp; White; Weißer; Ausland; Geschlechterkonflikt; Soziale Kognition; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Sinti und Roma; Mischling; Ethnizität; Kanada
Abstract	In the current research we examined non-Black children's associations with targets who differed by both race and gender, with a focus on the role of categorization in informing children's biases. Children aged 5 to 12 years (N = 206; 109 boys, 97 girls; 55% White; 68% of household incomes > $75,000/year), recruited from a science museum in a large multicultural Canadian city, completed a child-friendly Implicit Association Test (IAT; Greenwald et al., 2003) that included own-gender Black and other-gender White targets. Children were randomly assigned to complete this IAT under one of three categorization conditions. When asked to categorize targets by gender as opposed to race, both girls and boys showed relatively more positive associations with own-gender Black targets over other-gender White targets. Children in a third, Ambiguous-Categorization (AC-IAT; Lipman et al., 2021) condition, which allowed for categorization by gender and/or race, were more likely to spontaneously categorize additional final trials primarily by gender (70%), suggesting that gender was the more salient social category. However, girls' and boys' biases in this condition differed, with girls showing relatively more positive associations with own-gender Black targets (Black girls > White boys) and boys showing relatively more positive associations with other-gender White targets (White girls > Black boys). In addition, the more boys and girls categorized by gender (over race) at the end of the task, the more they showed positive associations with own-gender Black targets over other-gender White targets. These findings provide insight into children's social categorization processes and biases toward targets who differ by race and gender. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01