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Race; implicit and explicit racial attitudes; skin tone; facial physiognomy; social cognitive development
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Racial Bias In Elementary School Children: Effects Of Skin Tone And Facial Features, Maya Alyse Rex
Racial Bias In Elementary School Children: Effects Of Skin Tone And Facial Features, Maya Alyse Rex
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This work examines whether explicit and implicit racial attitudes are driven primarily by skin tone, other features of facial physiognomy, or both in elementary school children (N = 108) between the ages of 5 and 12. Children evaluated faces varying in skin tone (from dark to light) and facial physiognomy (from Afrocentric to Eurocentric). In an explicit bias task, children rated how much they liked each face that appeared on the computer screen one by one. In an implicit bias task (a child-friendly version of the Affect Misattribution Procedure, Dunham & Emory, 2014), on each trial participants rated a Chinese …