Race Essentialism and Social Contextual Differences in Children's Racial Stereotyping.
The authors explored the differential emergence and correlates of racial stereotyping in 136 children ages 4-11 years across two broad social contexts: Hawai'i and Massachusetts. Children completed measures assessing race salience, race essentialism, and in-group and out-group stereotyping. Results indicated that the type of racial stereotypes emerging with age was context dependent. In both contexts in-group stereotyping increased with age. In contrast, there was only an age-related increase in out-group stereotyping in Massachusetts. Older children in Massachusetts reported more essentialist thinking (i.e., believing that race cannot change) than their counterparts in Hawai'i, which explained their higher out-group stereotyping. These results provide insight into the factors that may shape contextual differences in racial stereotyping.
University of Hawai'i at Manoa. kpauker@hawaii.edu.
Kristin
K
Pauker
University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Yiyuan
Y
Xu
University of Bristol.
Amanda
A
Williams
University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Ashley M
AM
Biddle
D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006254:Hawaii; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008404:Massachusetts; D063505:Racism / Q000523:psychology*; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping
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