Children's social wariness toward a different-race stranger relates to individual differences in temperament.

ABSTRACT: When children first meet a stranger, there is great variation in how much they will approach and engage with the stranger. While individual differences in this type of behavior-called social wariness-are well-documented in temperament research, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the social groups (such as race) of the stranger and how these characteristics might influence children's social wariness. In contrast, research on children's social bias and interracial friendships rarely examines individual differences in temperament and how temperament might influence cross-group interactions. The current study bridges the gap across these different fields of research by examining whether the racial group of an unfamiliar peer or adult moderates the association between temperament an

SUBMITTER: Hwang HG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10518028 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature