Research article summary (published 29 Jun 2006):

Children's distributive justice judgments: aversive racism in Euro-American children?

Full Abstract

Euro-American 2nd- and 4th-grade children (Ms=7.67 and 9.82 years) heard stories about Black and White characters who produced artwork yielding a windfall reward. Children allocated rewards to characters, justified their allocations, and judged the fairness of patterns representing different justice principles. Older children allocated more money to Black than White productive characters and to White than Black needy characters, consistent with predictions from aversive racism theory. Rationales most often relied on equality principles; older children gave more equity-based justifications for Black than for White characters. Fairness ratings of patterns representing 4 justice principles revealed effects for age and character race. Implications for understanding the developmental course of moral judgments as they apply to racial differences are discussed.

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Author information

Author/s: McGillicuddy-De Lisi, Ann V (AV); Daly, Melissa (M); Neal, Angela (A);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042, USA. mcgillia(-atsign-)lafayette.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Child development (Child Dev), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: -2006 Jul-Aug; vol 77 (issue 4) : pp 1063-80

Dates: Created 2006/08/31; Completed 2006/12/22;

PMID: 16942506, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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African Continental Ancestry Group - psychology Age Factors Attitude Child Culture European Continental Ancestry Group - psychology Female Humans

Humans Judgment Male Moral Development Personal Construct Theory Prejudice Social Justice Socioeconomic Factors

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