@article{ref1,
title="Perceptual individuation training (but not mere exposure) reduces implicit racial bias in preschool children",
journal="Developmental psychology",
year="2017",
author="Qian, Miao K. and Quinn, Paul C. and Heyman, Gail D. and Pascalis, Olivier and Fu, Genyue and Lee, Kang",
volume="53",
number="5",
pages="845-859",
abstract="Two studies with preschool-age children examined the effectiveness of perceptual individuation training at reducing racial bias (Study 1, N = 32; Study 2, N = 56). We found that training preschool-age children to individuate other-race faces resulted in a reduction in implicit racial bias while mere exposure to other-race faces produced no such effect. We also showed that neither individuation training nor mere exposure reduced explicit racial bias. Theoretically, our findings provide strong evidence for a causal link between individual-level face processing and implicit racial bias, and are consistent with the newly proposed perceptual-social linkage hypothesis. Practically, our findings suggest that offering children experiences that allow them to increase their expertise in processing individual other-race faces will help reduce their implicit racial bias. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0012-1649",
doi="10.1037/dev0000290",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000290"
}