{"id":101363,"date":"2019-01-24T07:10:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/study-reveals-bias-in-children-even-before-they-reach-kindergarten\/"},"modified":"2019-01-24T07:10:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T07:10:30","slug":"study-reveals-bias-in-children-even-before-they-reach-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/study-reveals-bias-in-children-even-before-they-reach-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals bias in children even before they reach kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>In a <em>Developmental Science<\/em> study of preschool-aged children, implicit and explicit evaluations of Black boys were less positive than evaluations of Black girls, White boys, or White girls.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;gendered racial bias&#8221; was exhibited by both White and non-White children and was not correlated with their exposure to diversity. It also mirrors social bias observed in adults.<\/p>\n<p>The study, which reveals the earliest evidence of bias at the intersection of race and gender, underscores the importance of addressing bias in the first years of life.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Our results suggest that children are attuned to nuanced patterns of social bias at a surprisingly young age,&#8221; said lead author Danielle Perszyk, of Northwestern University. &#8220;This means that efforts to counter such bias must begin very early in children&#8217;s development.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Josh Glickman<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1111\/<wbr>desc.<wbr>12788 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a Developmental Science study of preschool-aged children, implicit and explicit evaluations of Black boys were less positive than evaluations of Black girls, White boys, or White girls. This &#8220;gendered racial bias&#8221; was exhibited by both White and non-White children and was not correlated with their exposure to diversity. It also mirrors social bias observed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[407,451,419,340],"class_list":["post-101363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-demography","tag-minorities","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-social-behavioral-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}