Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages 845-859Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/dev0000290
Keywords
race bias; face processing; individuation; implicit bias; explicit bias
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 HD046526]
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- National Science Foundation of China [31371041, 31470993]
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Two studies with preschool-age children examined the effectiveness of perceptual individuation training at reducing racial bias (Study 1, N = 32; Study 2, N = 56). We found that training preschool-age children to individuate other-race faces resulted in a reduction in implicit racial bias while mere exposure to other-race faces produced no such effect. We also showed that neither individuation training nor mere exposure reduced explicit racial bias. Theoretically, our findings provide strong evidence for a causal link between individual-level face processing and implicit racial bias, and are consistent with the newly proposed perceptual-social linkage hypothesis. Practically, our findings suggest that offering children experiences that allow them to increase their expertise in processing individual other-race faces will help reduce their implicit racial bias.
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