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Race Attitudes in Cultural Context: The View from Two Brazilian States
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Sacco, Airi Macias; de Paula Couto, Maria Clara Pinheiro; Dunham, Yarrow; Santana, Juliana Prates; Nunes, Luciana Neves; Koller, Sílvia Helena – Developmental Psychology, 2019
The development of implicit and explicit racial attitudes were investigated in 542 White, Pardo, and Black Brazilian children and adolescents (aged 6 to 14) from 2 different regional contexts that vary dramatically in their racial diversity, Bahia (BA) and Rio Grande do Sul (RS). Results revealed the pervasive presence of race biases favoring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Attitudes, Cultural Influences, Whites
Children's and Adults' Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns
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Roberts, Steven O.; Williams, Amber D.; Gelman, Susan A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2017
Cross-race friendships can promote the development of positive racial attitudes, yet they are relatively uncommon and decline with age. In an effort to further our understanding of the extent to which children expect cross-race friendships to occur, we examined 4- to 6-year-olds' (and adults') use of race when predicting other children's…
Descriptors: Adults, Racial Relations, Positive Attitudes, Racial Attitudes
Family Experiences through the Autism Diagnostic Process
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Sansosti, Frank J.; Lavik, Katherine B.; Sansosti, Jenine M. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
The primary aim of this study was to investigate common family experiences during the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnostic process, and the child and family variables that may relate to different diagnostic outcomes. A secondary aim of this study was to evaluate families' knowledge of the research support for various interventions. To…
Descriptors: Autism, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Race Preferences in Children: Insights from South Africa
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Shutts, Kristin; Kinzler, Katherine D.; Katz, Rachel C.; Tredoux, Colin; Spelke, Elizabeth S. – Developmental Science, 2011
Minority-race children in North America and Europe often show less own-race favoritism than children of the majority (White) race, but the reasons for this asymmetry are unresolved. The present research tested South African children in order to probe the influences of group size, familiarity, and social status on children's race-based social…
Descriptors: Blacks, Children, Race, Social Status
Adolescent Substance Use in the U.S.: Facts for Policymakers. Fact Sheet
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Stagman, Shannon; Schwarz, Susan Wile; Powers, Danielle – National Center for Children in Poverty, 2011
Adolescence is an important period of physical, social, psychological, and cognitive growth. No longer children and not yet adults, adolescents make significant choices about their health and develop attitudes and health behaviors that continue into adulthood. Substance use disorders among adolescents can impede the attainment of important…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Health Behavior, Adolescents, Adolescent Development
The Inheritability of Identity: Children's Understanding of the Cultural Biology of Race.
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Hirschfeld, Lawrence A. – Child Development, 1995
Four experiments explored adults' and grade school children's beliefs about inheritability of racial identity. Found that older children and adults believed that mixed-race children possessed black racial features. Also found that children from an integrated school, regardless of race, expected mixed-race children to have intermediate racial…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Biological Influences, Blacks