Adultification, anger bias, and adults' different perceptions of Black and White children

Adultification, perceiving a child as older and more mature, and anger bias, perceiving anger where it does not exist, are two phenomena disproportionally imposed on Black children compared to White children. The current study assessed whether perceiving a Black child as older increases the odds of...

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Published in:Cognition and emotion 2021-11, Vol.35 (7), p.1416-1422
Main Authors: Cooke, Alison N, Halberstadt, Amy G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Anger
Bias
Black or African American
Black people
Child
Children
Emotions
Humans
Older children
Parents
Perception
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Summary:Adultification, perceiving a child as older and more mature, and anger bias, perceiving anger where it does not exist, are two phenomena disproportionally imposed on Black children compared to White children. The current study assessed whether perceiving a Black child as older increases the odds of mistakenly perceiving anger. Participating were 152 parents who viewed video representations of 40 children in an emotion understanding paradigm. Black children were not seen as older than White children but they did have 1.27 higher odds of being misperceived as angry (
ISSN:0269-9931
1464-0600
1464-0600
DOI:10.1080/02699931.2021.1950127