Infants’ visual attention to own-race and other-race faces is moderated by experience with people of different races in their daily lives.
Sophie H. Arnold,
Nicole Burke,
Rachel A. Leshin
et al.
Abstract:Infants sometimes differentially attend to faces of different races, but how this tendency develops across infancy and how it may vary for infants growing up with different exposure to racial diversity remain unclear. The present study examined the role of experiences with racial diversity on infants' visual attention to different racial groups (specifically own-race vs. other-race groups) in the first year of life via a large-scale study of infants (N = 203; M age = 6.9 months, range = 3-14 months; 70% White,… Show more
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