Can parents help reduce racial biases?
Psychology graduate student, Katharine Scott intends to find the answer by focusing her research on a multitude of forces that lead to the creation and perpetuation of children’s biases and how to counteract them.
Children develop racial biases as early as preschool—can parents Help reduce these biases?
Graduate student Katharine Scott wants to find out. Working in both Kristin Shutts’s Social Kids Lab and Patricia Devine’s Prejudice and Intergroup Relations Lab, Scott’s research led to a discovery of the multitude of forces leading to the creation and perpetuation of children’s biases.
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