Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children’s memory for racially ambiguous faces.
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Essentialist thinking predicts decrements in children's memory for racially ambiguous faces.
Past research shows that adults often display poor memory for racially ambiguous and racial outgroup faces, with both face types remembered worse than own-race faces. In the present study, the authors examined whether children also show this pattern of results. They also examined whether emerging essentialist thinking about race predicts children's memory for faces. Seventy-four White children ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Developmental Psychology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1939-0599,0012-1649
DOI: 10.1037/a0033493