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3-011 - Identifying and Reducing Bias and Prejudice Among Children in Diverse Contexts
Sat, April 8, 8:30 to 10:00am, Austin Convention Center, Meeting Room 5CSession Type: Paper Session
Integrative Statement
This symposium explores the nature of children's biases toward own- and other-group members and examines strategies for reducing bias and prejudice among children. The first paper explores children's biases regarding members of their own and other ethnic/racial groups using an experimental design. The second and third papers introduce interventions to reduce bias and prejudice among children.
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Whites and Blacks as minorities: Children’s intergroup attitudes in a predominantly multiracial society - Presenting Author: Bolivar Reyes-Jaquez, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra; Miguel Escala, Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo
Perceptual individuation training reduces implicit racial bias in preschool children - Presenting Author: Miao Qian, University of Toronto; Kang Lee, University of Toronto; Genyue Fu, Hangzhou Normal University; Paul C Quinn, University of Delaware; Gail D Heyman, University of California, San Diego
Evaluating a School-Based Mindfulness and Compassion Training Intervention to Reduce Jewish-Israeli Youth’s Prejudice of Arabs - Rony Berger, Tel Aviv University & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Presenting Author: Alaina Brenick, University of Connecticut; Ricardo Tarrasch, Tel Aviv University