1. Every Face Has A Name: Face Recognition Reduces Racial Bias
Kitty Miao Qian and Kang Lee; University of Toronto;
Introduction
Lai et al (2014, 2016) indicate that implicit bias is hard to change among adults.
Racism emerges early in preschool age (Dunham, Chen, Banaji, 2013; Qian et al., 2016)
Little is known about how to reduce children’s implicit racial bias (but see Gonzalez, Steele, & Baron, 2016).
The Current Study
Whether perceptual individuation training would reduce Chinese children’s implicit and explicit racial biases?
N = 93; Chinese 3- to 6-year old children from an eastern city in China, Mage = 5.65 years.
Procedures
Conclusions
African, but not Chinese or Caucasian individuation training, reduces anti-Black bias.
No effects on reducing explicit anti-Blacks bias.
Effectiveness and efficiency with 20-minute training.
Results
Related Publications
Lai et al., (2014, 2016). Reducing implicit racial preferences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
Qian et al., (in press). Perceptual individuation training (but not mere exposure) reduces implicit racial bias in preschool children. Developmental Psychology.
Qian et al., (2016). Implicit racial biases in preschool children and adults from Asia and Africa. Child Development.
Qian et al., (2015). Theoretical construction and empirical research on Preschooler-friendly Implicit Racial Bias Test. Acta Psychologica Sinica.
Results
Implicit Racial Bias
Explicit Racial Bias
Anti-Black Bias
Anti-Black Bias *