Journal Article

From American City to Japanese Village: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of Implicit Race Attitudes

Dunham, Yarrow, Banaji, Mahzarin R., Baron, Andrew Scott

2006

Overview

This study examined the development of implicit race attitudes in American and Japanese children and adults. Implicit ingroup bias was present early in both populations, and remained stable at each age tested (age 6, 10, and adult). Similarity in magnitude and developmental course across these 2 populations suggests that implicit intergroup bias is an early-emerging and fundamental aspect of human social cognition. However, implicit race attitudes toward favored outgroups are more positive in older than in younger participants, indicating that \"cultural prestige\" enjoyed by a group moderates implicit bias as greater knowledge of group status is acquired. These results demonstrate (a) the ready presence, (b) early cultural invariance, and (c) subsequent cultural moderation of implicit attitudes toward own and other groups.

• Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc,Blackwell Publishers,Blackwell Publishing,Blackwell,Oxford University Press
• Subject: Adults / Asian people / Attitude - ethnology / Attitudes / Bias / Biological and medical sciences / Child / Child development / Children / Children & youth / Cognition / Cognitive Structures / Comparative Analysis / Continental Population Groups / Cross Cultural Studies / Cross-Cultural Comparison / Cultural groups / Developmental psychology / Ethnography / Family studies / Female / Foreign Countries / Foreign Culture / Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology / Group identity / Group status / Humans / Identity / Ingroup bias / Intergroup bias / Intergroup relations / Interpersonal Relations / Japan / Japanese people / Male / Moderation / North American people / Prestige / Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry / Psychology. Psychophysiology / Race / Racial Attitudes / Racial Bias / Racism / Rural areas / Social Cognition / Social Perception / Social research / Social Status / U.S.A / United States / Urban areas / Urban Population