Yu Chengfei, Qian Miao, Amemiya Jamie, Fu Genyue, Lee Kang, Heyman Gail D
Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Department of Psychology, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Dev Sci. 2022 May;25(3):e13191. doi: 10.1111/desc.13191. Epub 2021 Nov 29.
The goal of the present research was to assess whether children's first interaction with a single outgroup member can significantly impact their general attitudes toward the outgroup as a whole. In two preregistered studies, 5- to 6-year-old Chinese children (total N = 147) encountered a Black adult from another country for the very first time, and they played a game together. General attitudes toward the outgroup were assessed using both implicit and explicit measures. In both studies, the interaction resulted in less negative explicit attitudes toward Black people, but more negative implicit attitudes. The results demonstrate for the first time that one encounter with a single outgroup member can impact children's general attitudes toward that group, and that it can have differential effects on implicit and explicit attitudes.
本研究的目的是评估儿童与单个外群体成员的首次互动是否会显著影响他们对整个外群体的总体态度。在两项预先注册的研究中，5至6岁的中国儿童（总样本量N = 147）首次遇到来自另一个国家的黑人成年人，并一起玩了游戏。使用隐性和显性测量方法对外群体的总体态度进行了评估。在两项研究中，这种互动导致对黑人的显性态度不那么消极，但隐性态度更消极。研究结果首次表明，与单个外群体成员的一次接触会影响儿童对该群体的总体态度，并且对隐性和显性态度会产生不同的影响。
