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The Attribution of Behavioural Connotations to Shaded and White Figures by Caucasian Children
Author(s) -
BROWN GEOFFREY,
JOHNSON SUSAN P.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1971.tb00754.x
Subject(s) - attribution , white (mutation) , psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Children between the ages of 3 and 11 years were asked to ascribe positive and negative behavioural characteristics to pictures of white and shaded figures. Whilst the younger children, 3 and 4 years, tended to do this in a random fashion, children between the ages of 5 and 8 years showed a marked increase in the attribution of negative statements to shaded figures and positive statements to white figures. From the age of 9 years there was a diminution in this behaviour. Exposure to coloured immigrant children in the school and play‐group situations was associated with a decrease in this prejudicial behaviour.