Children's views of inequality may be influenced by how its causes are explained to them, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. The work offers insights into the factors that affect how larger social issues are perceived at a young age and points to new ways to reduce bias toward lower-status economic groups.
don't necessarily see differences in status in this way—and when children are prompted to consider the structural forces, they tend to interpret these structures differently from how adults do."
To do so, Leshin and Rhodes recruited more than 200 children, aged five to 10, to participate in an online study. In the study, children learned about two fictional groups—"Toogits" and"Flurps" . The authors note that fictional groups are often used in testing children's attitudes in order to diminish bias linked to"real-world" social categories.
In order to unpack how the"causes" provided to explain the inequality shaped children's responses to it, the researchers gave children one of three explanations for the inequality shown through the two fictional groups: one attributed it to structural causes and cited the"high-status group" as the structures' creators ; another attributed it to structural causes but did not identify their creator ; and one, the control condition, didn't provide an explanation at...
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