Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?

Most existing studies on racial bias reduction have used short-term interracial interaction interventions with fleeting effects. The current natural experiment examined whether daily interactions with other-race nannies relate to reduced racial bias in the preschool years. We capitalized on a unique...

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Main Authors: Setoh, Peipei, Sudo, Mioko, Quinn, Paul C., Lee, Kang
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-1709702023-10-15T15:30:20Z Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years? Setoh, Peipei Sudo, Mioko Quinn, Paul C. Lee, Kang School of Social Sciences Social sciences::Psychology Racial and Ethnic Attitudes and Relations Intergroup Dynamics Most existing studies on racial bias reduction have used short-term interracial interaction interventions with fleeting effects. The current natural experiment examined whether daily interactions with other-race nannies relate to reduced racial bias in the preschool years. We capitalized on a unique child-rearing situation in Singapore whereby children are often cared for by other-race nannies since infancy. Singaporean Chinese 3- to 6-year-olds (N = 100) completed explicit and implicit racial bias measures assessing their preferential bias favoring own-race adults over adults of their nannies' race. Differential findings were obtained for children's explicit and implicit racial bias. Extensiveness, but not mere presence, of other-race nanny experience was associated with lower levels of explicit racial bias in children. In contrast, neither presence nor extensiveness of other-race nanny experience was associated with children's implicit racial bias. Together, these findings suggest that long-term and extensive contact with an other-race caregiver could have subtle mitigating effects on children's explicit, but not implicit, racial bias. Ministry of Education (MOE) Published version This research was supported by a grant from the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (RG42/20) and a Singapore Ministry of Education Social Science Research Thematic Grant (MOE2016-SSRTG-017) awarded to Peipei Setoh. Paul Quinn’s participation in the project was supported by a National Science Foundation grant (BCS-2141326). 2023-10-09T08:30:41Z 2023-10-09T08:30:41Z 2023 Journal Article Setoh, P., Sudo, M., Quinn, P. C. & Lee, K. (2023). Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 235, 105729-. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105729 0022-0965 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170970 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105729 37364430 2-s2.0-85163457433 235 105729 en RG42/20 MOE2016-SSRTG-017 Journal of Experimental Child Psychology © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). application/pdf
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topic Social sciences::Psychology
Racial and Ethnic Attitudes and Relations
Intergroup Dynamics
spellingShingle Social sciences::Psychology
Racial and Ethnic Attitudes and Relations
Intergroup Dynamics
Setoh, Peipei
Sudo, Mioko
Quinn, Paul C.
Lee, Kang
Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
description Most existing studies on racial bias reduction have used short-term interracial interaction interventions with fleeting effects. The current natural experiment examined whether daily interactions with other-race nannies relate to reduced racial bias in the preschool years. We capitalized on a unique child-rearing situation in Singapore whereby children are often cared for by other-race nannies since infancy. Singaporean Chinese 3- to 6-year-olds (N = 100) completed explicit and implicit racial bias measures assessing their preferential bias favoring own-race adults over adults of their nannies' race. Differential findings were obtained for children's explicit and implicit racial bias. Extensiveness, but not mere presence, of other-race nanny experience was associated with lower levels of explicit racial bias in children. In contrast, neither presence nor extensiveness of other-race nanny experience was associated with children's implicit racial bias. Together, these findings suggest that long-term and extensive contact with an other-race caregiver could have subtle mitigating effects on children's explicit, but not implicit, racial bias.
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Setoh, Peipei
Sudo, Mioko
Quinn, Paul C.
Lee, Kang
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author Setoh, Peipei
Sudo, Mioko
Quinn, Paul C.
Lee, Kang
author_sort Setoh, Peipei
title Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
title_short Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
title_full Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
title_fullStr Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
title_full_unstemmed Does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
title_sort does extended experience with other-race nannies predict racial bias in the preschool years?
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