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- Title
RACE AND GENDER IMAGES IN PSYCHOLOGY TEXTBOOKS.
- Authors
Collins, Jonathan; Hebert, Thomas
- Abstract
Previous research has shown that images can have a profound effect on the manor in which humans think. Reports indicate that our self-esteem, social judgment of others, and even our ability to recall information can be affected by images. Peterson and Kroner (1992) found that images of people in general and developmental psychology textbooks were significantly biased towards White males. The present study is a update and extension of this original finding by examining the incidence of race and gender in the images used by a wide variety of psychology textbooks. We examined the images of people in a wide variety of psychology textbooks and classified the images based on gender of either male or female and skin color of White, Black, or Brown. We found that there were significantly more images of males than of females. Also, there were significantly more images of Whites than of Blacks or Browns. These results suggest that the race and gender depictions in psychology textbook images have not changed significantly in the last 15 years and that the apparent White male bias may apply to psychology textbooks in a wide variety of areas.
- Subjects
TEXTBOOKS; TEXTBOOK bias; RACISM in textbooks; SEXISM in textbooks; RACE; GENDER
- Publication
Race, Gender & Class, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 3/4, p300
- ISSN
1082-8354
- Publication type
Article