Long traditions in the social sciences have emphasized the gradual internalization of
intergroup attitudes and the putatively more basic tendency to prefer the groups to which …

Implicit attitudes form in the 1st years of life and change little across development. By age 6,
children's implicit intergroup attitudes are sensitive to the cultural standing of their group …

Challenging the view that implicit social cognition emerges from protracted social learning,
research now suggests that intergroup preferences are present at adultlike levels in early …

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 …

Over the past 25 years, our understanding of how children come to perceive and prefer
certain ethnic groups has expanded greatly. Since 1974, when Brand, Ruiz, and Padilla …

Research on the development of implicit intergroup attitudes has placed heavy emphasis on
race, leaving open how social categories that are prominent in other cultures might operate …

* Winner of Honorable Mention Award for the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International
Relations Prize competition from SSPSI* This edited volume captures an exciting new trend …

What cognitive and affective processes underlie the all‐too‐human tendency toward group‐
based affiliation and exclusion? Using a paradigm in which children are randomly assigned …

Although standardized measures of prejudice reveal high levels of ethnocentric bias in the
preschool years, it may reflect in-group favoritism or out-group prejudice. A measure that …

Recent developments in social psychology have explained children's preference for
members of the in-group in terms of processes of self-categorization and identification with …