Young children perceive less humanness in outgroup faces.
Young children perceive less humanness in outgroup faces.
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DOI：
10.1111/desc.12539
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发表时间：
2018-03
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Niamh Mcloughlin;S. Tipper;Harriet Over
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作者：
Niamh Mcloughlin;S. Tipper;Harriet Over
我们调查了幼儿何时第一次将外群体非人化。在两项研究中，5岁和6岁的孩子被要求评价他们认为一组模糊的娃娃人脸变体有多人性。我们操纵这些面孔是否属于他们的性别内或性别外群体（研究1）和地理上的内或外群体（研究2）。在这两项研究中，随着年龄的增长，人们倾向于认为外群面孔比内群面孔更不像人类。相比之下，即使在最小的孩子中也存在明显的内群体偏好，并且在不同年龄段保持稳定。这些结果表明，儿童非人性化的外群体成员从相对早期的发展，并建议这样做的趋势可能是部分区别于群体间的偏好。本研究对于我们理解儿童的人性感知和群际偏见的起源具有重要意义。
We investigated when young children first dehumanize outgroups. Across two studies, 5- and 6-year-olds were asked to rate how human they thought a set of ambiguous doll-human face morphs were. We manipulated whether these faces belonged to their gender in- or gender outgroup (Study 1) and to a geographically based in- or outgroup (Study 2). In both studies, the tendency to perceive outgroup faces as less human relative to ingroup faces increased with age. Explicit ingroup preference, in contrast, was present even in the youngest children and remained stable across age. These results demonstrate that children dehumanize outgroup members from relatively early in development and suggest that the tendency to do so may be partially distinguishable from intergroup preference. This research has important implications for our understanding of children's perception of humanness and the origins of intergroup bias.