Can Even Preschoolers Show Racial, Gender Bias? [psychcentral.com]

A new study provides evidence of bias at the intersection of race and gender in 4-year-old children.

This pattern of bias — known as gendered racial bias — mirrors harmful patterns of bias observed among adults, according to researchers at Northwestern University.

For the study, researchers examined the preschoolers’ responses to images of other children who varied both in race — black and white — and gender.

[For more on this story by Janice Wood, go to https://psychcentral.com/news/...der-bias/142335.html]