Bilingualism Is Associated with Less Racial Bias in Preschool Children

Autor/inn/en	Singh, Leher; Quinn, Paul C.; Qian, Miao; Lee, Kang
Titel	Bilingualism Is Associated with Less Racial Bias in Preschool Children
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 56 (2020) 5, S.888-896 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Singh, Leher)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000905
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Bilingual Students; Racial Bias; Preschool Children; Monolingualism; English; Blacks; Native Language; Asians; Mandarin Chinese; Foreign Countries; Singapore; China; Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; English language; Englisch; Black person; Schwarzer; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Ausland; Singapur
Abstract	Bilingual children have been shown to differ from monolingual children in several domains of human cognition. Comparatively few studies have investigated social-interactional processes in bilingual populations. Here, we investigated whether monolingual and bilingual children demonstrate similar susceptibility to an aspect of social functioning with broad societal reach: racial bias. We measured both implicit and explicit biases against African race individuals in 2 groups of monolingual preschoolers (native speakers of English or Chinese) and in 2 groups of English-Chinese bilingual preschoolers (tested in English or Chinese; total N = 160). We found that monolingual children demonstrated greater implicit bias against African race individuals than bilingual children, independent of their native language. Monolingual Chinese children demonstrated greater explicit bias than bilingual children, although monolingual English children's explicit bias scores did not differ from those of bilingual children. Findings are discussed in terms of cognitive and experiential mechanisms that may link bilingualism and racial bias. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01