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dc.contributor.authorCastelli, Luigi
dc.contributor.authorDea, Christina
dc.contributor.authorNesdale, Drew
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:51:02Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:51:02Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2011-11-22T04:14:04Z
dc.identifier.issn01461672
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0146167208322769
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/23308
dc.description.abstractWhite children show marked ingroup race preferences and a relative devaluation of Black people. The origin of these early interracial attitudes is to a large extent still unclear. The studies here test the possibility that preschool-aged children are particularly sensitive to the nonverbal behaviors performed by White adults during interracial interactions. In Study 1, children were shown a video displaying an interaction between a White and a Black adult. Across conditions, the White adult's verbal behaviors were either friendly or neutral, whereas his nonverbal behaviors showed either easiness (e.g., closeness, high eye contact) or uneasiness (e.g., distance, avoidance of eye contact). Results revealed that participants shaped their attitudes toward the Black target accordingly, independently from the White adults' verbal behaviors. Study 2 replicated the basic findings and demonstrated that the observed effects generalized to other Black targets. Results are discussed in relation to current approaches to understanding the formation of racial attitudes among children.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1504
dc.relation.ispartofpageto1513
dc.relation.ispartofissue11
dc.relation.ispartofjournalPersonality and Social Psychology Bulletin
dc.relation.ispartofvolume34
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.titleLearning social attitudes: children’s sensitivity to the nonverbal behaviors of adult models during interracial interactions
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorNesdale, Drew R.


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