Researchers developed a facial photo-matching game
that reverses racial bias in children
Lila MacLellan
Flipboard.com
Nov 3, 2016
In a recent study from Yale
University, preschool teachers were found to spend more time watching
African-American children, and especially boys, for signs of misbehavior, than
they did children of other races.
These findings, which were published in Child Development, led the scientists to believe that the children were likely extending a negative perception about an unknown race to all people of that category. This is a symptom of the so-called “other-race effect,” which makes it challenging for a person to make distinctions between the individual faces of another race. (It’s at play when you hear someone make the cringe-inducing comment that people of one group “all look alike to me,” but it doesn’t always suggest underlying racism.)
Because learning to individuate faces has been shown to reduce race-based implicit bias in adults, the researchers decided to test the method with children...
Researchers developed a facial photo-matching game
that reverses racial bias in children
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