Roberts Steven O, Gelman Susan A
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan.
Dev Psychol. 2016 Jun;52(6):887-93. doi: 10.1037/dev0000132. Epub 2016 May 5.
Recent research questions whether children conceptualize race as stable. We examined participants' beliefs about the relative stability of race and emotion, a temporary feature. Participants were White adults and children ages 5-6 and 9-10 (Study 1) and racial minority children ages 5-6 (Study 2). Participants were presented with target children who were happy or angry and Black or White and were asked to indicate which of 2 adults (a race but not emotion match or an emotion but not race match) each child would grow up to be. White adults, White 9- to 10-year-olds, and racial minority 5- to 6-year-olds selected race matches, whereas White 5- to 6-year-olds selected race and emotion matches equally. These data suggest that beliefs about racial stability vary by age and social group. (PsycINFO Database Record
近期研究对儿童是否将种族概念化为固定不变的提出了质疑。我们考察了参与者对于种族（一种固定特征）和情绪（一种临时特征）相对稳定性的看法。参与者包括白人成年人、5至6岁和9至10岁的儿童（研究1）以及5至6岁的少数族裔儿童（研究2）。向参与者展示开心或愤怒的黑人或白人目标儿童，并要求他们指出每个儿童长大后会成为两名成年人中的哪一个（种族匹配但情绪不匹配，或者情绪匹配但种族不匹配）。白人成年人、9至10岁的白人儿童以及5至6岁的少数族裔儿童选择了种族匹配，而5至6岁的白人儿童对种族和情绪匹配的选择相同。这些数据表明，关于种族稳定性的看法因年龄和社会群体而异。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
