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- Title
What Drives Racial Attitudes in Elementary School Children: Skin Tone, Facial Physiognomy, or Both?
- Authors
Stepanova, Elena V.; Dunham, Yarrow; Rex, Maya; Hagiwara, Nao
- Abstract
This work examines whether racial attitudes—when measured by both explicit and implicit measures— are driven primarily by skin tone, facial physiognomy, or both in 5 to 12-year-old children. Participants evaluated faces varying in skin tone (from dark to light) and facial physiognomy (from Afrocentric to Eurocentric). In an explicit task, children rated how much they liked each face. In an implicit task, participants completed a child-friendly version of the Affect Misattribution Procedure, where they rated a Chinese character as "good" or "bad" following a racial prime. Results suggest that pro-White attitudes (especially those measured by the explicit task) are driven by both factors, vary by perceivers' race, and are present in both White and non-White children, though skin tone exerts a larger influence than other features, at least in explicit evaluations. Our results also raise the possibility that pro-White biases might be more internalized by non-White children in the American South.
- Subjects
SCHOOL children; RACIAL &; ethnic attitudes; PHYSIOGNOMY; CLEFT palate children; ESTHETICIANS (Skin care)
- Publication
Psychological Reports, 2021, Vol 124, Issue 2, p809
- ISSN
0033-2941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0033294120916867