Citation

Qian MK, Quinn PC, Heyman GD, Pascalis O, Fu G, Lee K. Dev. Psychol. 2017; 53(5): 845-859.

Affiliation

Dr. Eric Jackman Institute of Child Study, University of Toronto.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/dev0000290

PMID

28459274

Abstract

Two studies with preschool-age children examined the effectiveness of perceptual individuation training at reducing racial bias (Study 1, N = 32; Study 2, N = 56). We found that training preschool-age children to individuate other-race faces resulted in a reduction in implicit racial bias while mere exposure to other-race faces produced no such effect. We also showed that neither individuation training nor mere exposure reduced explicit racial bias. Theoretically, our findings provide strong evidence for a causal link between individual-level face processing and implicit racial bias, and are consistent with the newly proposed perceptual-social linkage hypothesis. Practically, our findings suggest that offering children experiences that allow them to increase their expertise in processing individual other-race faces will help reduce their implicit racial bias. (PsycINFO Database Record

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