Social-Cognitive-Developmental Model of Mechanisms Underlying Racial-Attitude Behavior Change

偏见对所有种族和族裔群体的儿童的学习和发展造成障碍。随着北美青年的日益多样化，在理解和减少种族偏见方面取得进展尤为及时和重要。最近的社会和发展研究阐明了偏见的多方面性质，以及需要采取跨学科的方法来解决偏见。这一研究计划将关于态度变化的社会心理学研究的进展与关于儿童认知能力和局限性的发展研究的进展整合并扩展到种族态度变化潜在机制的社会-认知-发展模型中。我们将通过观察、社会认知技能培训、纵向评估和元分析等多种方法来检验这一综合模式。该项目将对社会和发展研究种族态度变化的机制作出理论和经验上的贡献，并将就针对年龄的减少偏见干预措施提出具体建议，使生活和学习在多元化社会中的儿童受益。

Prejudice creates barriers for the learning and development of children from all racial and ethnic groups. With the increasing diversity of youth in North America, it is particularly timely and important to make progress toward understanding and reducing racial prejudice. Recent social and developmental research clarifies the multifaceted nature of prejudice and the need for an inter-disciplinary approach to addressing prejudice. This program of research integrates and expands advances in social psychological research on attitude change with advances in developmental research on children's cognitive capacities and limitations into the Social-Cognitive-Developmental Model of mechanisms underlying racial attitude change. This integrative model will be examined via multiple methods including observations, social-cognitive skill training, longitudinal assessments, and meta-analyses. The project will make theoretical and empirical contributions to social and developmental research on mechanisms underlying racial attitude change and will produce concrete recommendations for age-specific prejudice reduction interventions that benefit children who live and learn in a diverse society.