Racially based trust expectancies of Native American and Caucasian children.
Native American and Caucasian children attending fourth or fifth grade in same-race or mixed-race Canadian schools judged themselves and the other group with respect to trust. As hypothesized, the children displayed same-race trust expectancies: Native American children expected a Caucasian child to be less likely to keep promises, keep secrets, and tell the truth than a Native American child. The Caucasian children displayed the opposite pattern of expectancies. The same-race pattern of trust was less evident in mixed-race schools than in same-race schools but, consistent with the behavioral disconfirmation hypothesis, only for expectancies of promise keeping.
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Department of Psychology, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.
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D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007198:Indians, North American / Q000523:psychology*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D009864:Ontario; D011287:Prejudice; D011822:Race Relations; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*