Associate professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University and Cook Center Faculty Affiliate Dr. Sarah Gaither contributed to a paper recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
The study employed a collaborative multi-site approach, and measured 4- to 6-year-old children’s minimal group attitudes and preference for real-world racial/ethnic ingroups and outgroups. The minimal group effect refers to the preference of ingroup members to outgroup members, even when group membership is trivially constructed. This effect has been studied extensively in psychological science, however, the study seeks to expand the research on racially/ethically diverse populations.
Access the paper here: Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children
