Individuation training with other-race faces reduces preschoolers' implicit racial bias: a link between perceptual and social representation of faces in children

Developmental Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 655-663

  Xiao, Wen S ^a,b   Fu, Genyue ^a   Quinn, Paul C ^c   Qin, Jinliang ^a   Tanaka, James W ^d   Pascalis, Olivier ^e   Lee, Kang ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^e UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; TEACHING;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RACISM; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TEACHING;

EID: 84926676835     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12241     Document Type: Article

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