Reducing children's implicit racial bias through exposure to positive outgroup exemplars.

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Author

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Gonzalez, A., Steele, J., & Baron, A.S

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TItle

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Reducing children’s implicit racial bias through exposure to positive outgroup exemplars.

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Can exposure to positive outgroup exemplars (individuals from a racial group the child is not typically exposed to) reduce children’s implicit racial biases?

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Method

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exposed 5- to 7-year-old children to positive exemplars of outgroup members

Implicit Association Test (IAT): To measure unconscious racial biases by assessing their reaction times when associating Black and White faces with positive and negative traits.

Explicit Bias Measures: Asking children to express preferences for faces or groups, to assess any changes in overt attitudes.

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Results

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Children who were exposed to positive outgroup exemplars (e.g., Black individuals in positive roles) showed a significant reduction in implicit racial bias

There was no significant change in children’s explicit preferences for outgroup faces