Children's Use of Race in Their Social Judgments: A Multi-Site, Multi-Racial Group Comparison.

ABSTRACT: Studies assessing children's use of race in social judgment have often focused on White participants and usually include targets of only one or two racial backgrounds. They have also employed a wide range of methods, making comparisons across studies difficult. In this paper, we recruited a large sample of children ages 4- to 6-years-old (N = 666) belonging to the United States' four largest racial/ethnic groups (Black, Latine, Asian, and White) in five geographic regions (Durham, NC; Honolulu, HI; Long Beach, CA; New Haven, CT; Seattle, WA) to broadly examine children's race-based social judgments (including measures of racial attitudes, interpersonal distance, resource allocation, and status perception). Overall, children demonstrated consistent ingroup biases in the attitudes, re

SUBMITTER: Munoz MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12707373 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature