The University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA.
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
Psychol Rep. 2021 Apr;124(2):809-838. doi: 10.1177/0033294120916867.
This work examines whether racial attitudes-when measured by both explicit and implicit measures- are driven primarily by skin tone, facial physiognomy, or both in 5 to 12-year-old children. Participants evaluated faces varying in skin tone (from dark to light) and facial physiognomy (from Afrocentric to Eurocentric). In an explicit task, children rated how much they liked each face. In an implicit task, participants completed a child-friendly version of the Affect Misattribution Procedure, where they rated a Chinese character as "good" or "bad" following a racial prime. Results suggest that pro-White attitudes (especially those measured by the explicit task) are driven by both factors, vary by perceivers' race, and are present in both White and non-White children, though skin tone exerts a larger influence than other features, at least in explicit evaluations. Our results also raise the possibility that pro-White biases might be more internalized by non-White children in the American South.
这项工作考察了种族态度——无论是通过外显测量还是内隐测量——在 5 至 12 岁儿童中主要是由肤色、面部特征还是两者共同驱动的。参与者评估了肤色（从深到浅）和面部特征（从非裔中心到欧裔中心）各不相同的面孔。在一个外显任务中，孩子们对每张脸的喜爱程度进行了评价。在一个内隐任务中，参与者完成了一个儿童友好版的情绪归因程序，在该程序中，他们根据种族提示将一个汉字评价为“好”或“坏”。结果表明，亲白态度（尤其是通过外显任务测量的态度）是由这两个因素共同驱动的，因观察者的种族而异，而且在白人和非白人儿童中都存在，尽管肤色比其他特征的影响更大，至少在外显评价中是这样。我们的结果还提出了一种可能性，即亲白偏见可能更容易被美国南方的非白人儿童内化。
