The Nature and Consequences of Essentialist Beliefs About Race in Early Childhood.

Autor: Mandalaywala TM; New York University., Ranger-Murdock G; New York University., Amodio DM; New York University.; University of Amsterdam., Rhodes M; New York University.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Child development [Child Dev] 2019 Jul; Vol. 90 (4), pp. e437-e453. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 Jan 23.
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13008
Abstrakt: It is widely believed that race divides the world into biologically distinct kinds of people-an essentialist belief inconsistent with reality. Essentialist views of race have been described as early emerging, but this study found that young children (n = 203, M age  = 5.45) hold only the more limited belief that the physical feature of skin color is inherited and stable. Overall, children rejected the causal essentialist view that behavioral and psychological characteristics are constrained by an inherited racial essence. Although average levels of children's causal essentialist beliefs about race were low, variation in these beliefs was related to children's own group membership, exposure to diversity, as well as children's own social attitudes.
(© 2018 The Authors. Child Development © 2018 Society for Research in Child Development, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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