PSYCH211 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Color Blindness
20 Nov 2016
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Reasoning about the stability of emotion and race. White adults and children aged 5-6 and 9-10 (study 1) Racial minority children ages 5-6 (study 2) Participants presented with target children who were happy or angry and black or white. Asked to indicate which of the two adults the children would grow up to be: adult had 1) a race but not emotion match or 2) an emotion but not a race match. White 9-10 year olds and racial minority 5-6 year olds selected race matches. White 5-6 year olds selected race and emotion matches equally. Beliefs about racial stability vary by age and social group. Procedure: children were given practice trials given cartoon faces of different races and emotions. Parent racial socialization: parents of the children were asked how often race-related issues had come up with their child. When emotion and race were conflict, white 5-6 year olds did not treat race as more or less stable than emotion.
