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SUBMITTER: Yeager DS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10782852 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Child development 20170208 2
This research tested a social-developmental process model of trust discernment. From sixth to eighth grade, White and African American students were surveyed twice yearly (ages 11-14; Study 1, N = 277). African American students were more aware of racial bias in school disciplinary decisions, and as this awareness grew it predicted a loss of trust in school, leading to a large trust gap in seventh grade. Loss of trust by spring of seventh grade predicted African Americans' subsequent discipline ...[more]