title: What works to address prejudice? Look to developmental science research for the answer.
abstract: Developmental perspectives on prejudice provide a fundamental and important key to the puzzle for determining how to address prejudice. Research with historically disadvantaged and advantaged groups in childhood and adolescence reveals the complexity of social cognitive and moral judgments about prejudice, discrimination, bias, and exclusion. Children are aware of status and hierarchies, and often reject the status quo. Intervention, to be effective, must happen early in development, before prejudice and stereotypes are deeply entrenched.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. MKillen@umd.edu
authors.forename: Melanie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Killen
authors.forename: Kelly Lynn
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Mulvey
authors.forename: Aline
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hitti
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rutland
mesh_terms: D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D011287:Prejudice; D012933:Social Identification