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When Multiracial Individuals Are the Numerical Majority: Children's Racial Attitudes in the Dominican Republic
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Reyes-Jaquez, Bolivar; Escala, Miguel J.; Bigler, Rebecca S. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
The Dominican Republic is a uniquely valuable context in which to study children's racial stereotyping and prejudice, in part because multiracial individuals comprise the majority of the population and race is viewed largely as a continuous rather than dichotomous construct. In two studies, we use developmental and social theories to ground an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multiracial Persons, Childrens Attitudes, Racial Attitudes
Relations between Colorblind Socialization and Children's Racial Bias: Evidence from European American Mothers and Their Preschool Children
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Pahlke, Erin; Bigler, Rebecca S.; Suizzo, Marie-Anne – Child Development, 2012
To examine European American parents' racial socialization, mothers (n = 84) were videotaped while reading 2 race-themed books to their 4- to 5-year-old children and completed surveys concerning their racial attitudes and behaviors. Children completed measures of their racial attitudes and both groups (mothers and preschoolers) predicted the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Preschool Children, Story Reading
Predictors of African American and European American Adolescents' Endorsement of Race-Conscious Social Policies
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Hughes, Julie Milligan; Bigler, Rebecca S. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
To examine the predictors of adolescents' evaluations of affirmative action and school desegregation policies, African American and European American students (ns = 94 and 116, respectively; aged 14 to 17 years) attending a racially diverse high school in the Midwestern United States completed measures of (a) implicit racial attitudes, (b)…
Descriptors: Race, School Desegregation, Racial Attitudes, Adolescents
A Cognitive-Developmental Approach to Racial Stereotyping and Reconstructive Memory in Euro-American Children.
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Bigler, Rebecca S.; Liben, Lynn S. – Child Development, 1993
To examine the role of cognitive skill and racial stereotyping in Euro-American children's processing of race-related information, 75 Euro-American children, aged 4 to 9 years, were asked to recall test stories that were either consistent or inconsistent with cultural racial stereotypes. As predicted, lower degrees of racial stereotyping were…
Descriptors: Black Stereotypes, Blacks, Children, Cognitive Development
Shades of Meaning: Skin Tone, Racial Attitudes, and Constructive Memory in African American Children.
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Averhart, Cara J.; Bigler, Rebecca S. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1997
Examined the effects of negative majority-culture stereotypes of race on elementary school-age African American children's intraracial attitudes. Found that children showed better memory for stereotypic than counterstereotypic information about skin tone. Individual differences in this memory bias varied according to the children's endorsement of…
Descriptors: Black Stereotypes, Black Youth, Childhood Attitudes, Memory
Consequences of Learning about Historical Racism among European American and African American Children
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Hughes, Julie M.; Bigler, Rebecca S.; Levy, Sheri R. – Child Development, 2007
Knowledge about racism is a critical component of educational curricula and contemporary race relations. To examine children's responses to learning about racism, European American (Study 1; N = 48) and African American (Study 2; N = 69) elementary-aged children (ages 6-11) received history lessons that included information about racism…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Racial Attitudes, Racial Relations