Frontiers in Psychology | |
Essentialism promotes children's inter-ethnic bias | |
Gil Diesendruck1  | |
关键词: essentialism; attitudes; social categories; children; ethnicity; | |
DOI : 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01180 | |
学科分类:心理学(综合) | |
来源: Frontiers | |
【 摘 要 】
The present study investigated the developmental foundation of the relation between social essentialism and attitudes. Forty-eight Jewish Israeli secular 6-year-olds were exposed to either a story emphasizing essentialism about ethnicity, or stories controlling for the salience of ethnicity or essentialism per se. After listening to a story, children's attitudes were assessed in a drawing and in an IAT task. Compared to the control conditions, children in the ethnic essentialism condition drew a Jewish and an Arab character as farther apart from each other, and the Jewish character with a more positive affect than the Arab character. Moreover, boys in the ethnic essentialism condition manifested a stronger bias in the IAT. These findings reveal an early link between essentialism and inter-group attitudes.
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