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Kids Notice Racial Differences Long Before Adults Want to Talk About It
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psychcentral.comJournal of Experimental Psychology: General.Delays in these important conversations could make it more difficult to change children’s misperceptions or racist beliefs, said study co-author Jessica Sullivan, Ph.D., an associate professor of psychology at Skidmore College.“Children are capable of thinking about all sorts of complex topics at a very young age,” she said. “Even if adults don’t talk to kids about race, children will work to make sense of their world and will come up with their own ideas, which may be inaccurate or detrimental.”In an online study with a nationally representative sample, more than 600 participants were asked the earliest age at which they would talk with children about race.
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