Presented By: Department of Psychology
Developmental Brown Bag: The Role of Socialization Agents in Addressing Children’s Racial Biases
Katharine Scott, PhD NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow Northwestern University

In this talk, I will share my work on the role adults could play in preventing or mitigating children’s social biases. How do adults think about children’s social biases? Could adults be trained to reduce children’s biases? Which socialization agents could impact children’s biases? I evaluate these questions using qualitative and quantitative methods in both survey and experimental studies with children and adults