Transmission of racial prejudice: from parents' cognitive styles, parenting styles and expectations to children's biases

• Main Author: Ng, Ying Ying
• Other Authors: Wan Ching
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/162690
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Need for closure and authoritarianism are attributes that are robustly linked to racial prejudice in the current literature. However, little is known about how having these attributes as parents would influence children’s racial biases. The present study examined the role of parents’ need for closur...