Correction: Stereotyping across intersections of race and age: Racial stereotyping among White adults working with children

Contextual Differences in Children’s Stereotyping 1 Running Head: CONTEXTUAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN’S STEREOTYPING Race Essentialism and Social Contextual Differences in Children’s Racial Stereotyping

The authors explored the differential emergence and correlates of racial stereotyping in 136 children ages 4-11 years across two broad social contexts: Hawai‘i and Massachusetts. Children completed measures assessing race salience, race essentialism, and in-group and out-group stereotyping. Results indicated that the type of racial stereotypes emerging with age was context dependent. In both co...

Stereotyping by children of the effects of drinking on adults.

Responses on a semantic differential questionnaire indicated that 12-year-olds had formed stereotypes about the effects of alcohol on adults and that these stereotypes were generally negative.

Race and the workforce: occupational status, aspirations, and stereotyping among African American children.

This study examined whether African American children's perceptions of occupational status and their own vocational interests are affected by racial segregation of the workforce. Children (N = 92) rated familiar occupations with respect to status, desirability, and stereotyping. Children also rated novel jobs that had been depicted with African Americans, European Americans, or both African and...

Stereotyping ricochet: complex effects of racial distinctiveness on identification accuracy.

Stuidies show that distinctive (e.g., attractive) people are better remembered than typical people (B. L. Cutler & S. D. Penrod, 1995). We investigated the effect of a Black person's presence on recognition accuracy for surrounding White individuals. Regarding eyewitness accuracy for an event, we expected more errors for White targets accompanied by Black confederates (experimental condition) t...

Racial stereotyping and medicine: the need for cultural competence.