Preference for high status predicts implicit outgroup bias among children from low-status groups

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1081-1090

  Newheiser, Anna Kaisa ^a   Dunham, Yarrow ^a,b   Merrill, Anna ^a,e   Hoosain, Leah ^c   Olson, Kristina R ^a,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit association test; Implicit attitudes; Inequality; Intergroup bias; Social status

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LINEAR MODELS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84897958462     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035054     Document Type: Article

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