A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Minority and Non-White Majority Children's Implicit Attitudes Toward Racial Outgroups

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dc.contributor.advisorSteele, Jennifer
dc.creatorGeorge, Meghan Louise
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T19:11:16Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T19:11:16Z
dc.date.copyright2015-05-26
dc.date.issued2015-12-16
dc.date.updated2015-12-16T19:11:16Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality)
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractIn this research I aimed to increase our understanding of the early emergence of racial biases by examining the implicit racial attitudes of minority and non-White majority children in two cultures. In Study 1, minority children in Canada completed an Implicit Association Test to measure implicit racial attitudes. Young non-Black minority children held a pro-White (versus Black) implicit bias. However, unlike previous findings, the magnitude of bias was lower for older children. In Study 2, I examined the implicit attitudes of Malay (majority) and Chinese (minority) children and adults in Brunei with limited contact with White or Black peers. Children showed implicit pro-White and pro-Chinese (versus Black) biases by early childhood, but showed no pro-White (versus Chinese) bias. Together, these findings support theorizing about the development of implicit intergroup cognition (Dunham et al., 2008), but suggest that context can shape these biases to a greater extent than was previously thought.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30627
dc.language.isoen
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dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subjectSocial psychology
dc.subjectDevelopmental psychology
dc.subject.keywordssocial psychology
dc.subject.keywordsdevelopment
dc.subject.keywordsimplicit attitudes
dc.subject.keywordsrace
dc.subject.keywordsbias
dc.subject.keywordscross-cultural
dc.subject.keywordsminority
dc.subject.keywordschildren
dc.titleA Cross-Cultural Investigation of Minority and Non-White Majority Children's Implicit Attitudes Toward Racial Outgroups
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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