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ERIC Number: EJ1249877
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-May
Pages: 9
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0012-1649
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Bilingualism Is Associated with Less Racial Bias in Preschool Children
Singh, Leher; Quinn, Paul C.; Qian, Miao; Lee, Kang
Developmental Psychology, v56 n5 p888-896 May 2020
Bilingual children have been shown to differ from monolingual children in several domains of human cognition. Comparatively few studies have investigated social-interactional processes in bilingual populations. Here, we investigated whether monolingual and bilingual children demonstrate similar susceptibility to an aspect of social functioning with broad societal reach: racial bias. We measured both implicit and explicit biases against African race individuals in 2 groups of monolingual preschoolers (native speakers of English or Chinese) and in 2 groups of English-Chinese bilingual preschoolers (tested in English or Chinese; total N = 160). We found that monolingual children demonstrated greater implicit bias against African race individuals than bilingual children, independent of their native language. Monolingual Chinese children demonstrated greater explicit bias than bilingual children, although monolingual English children's explicit bias scores did not differ from those of bilingual children. Findings are discussed in terms of cognitive and experiential mechanisms that may link bilingualism and racial bias.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Singapore; China
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test
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