A new report suggests children are racially biased but may be less inclined to show prejudice as they get older. It also suggests children have a more positive bias toward their own race than a negative bias toward others. Taking a category-based Implicit Association Test, as well as an “exemplar” test, younger children showed racial biases that were driven primarily by positivity toward their own race. “What (the research) suggests is that between the ages of 5 and 12, children aren’t necessarily negative to people from other races,” Steele said. “We believe it suggests that programs geared toward decreasing negativity (toward certain races) are not effective.”

Source: thestar December 01, 2017 10:52 UTC