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I am excited to share the most recent version of our working paper exploring the influence of White parent-child conversations on children's implicit anti-Black attitudes. We're hoping to resubmit soon! https://psyarxiv.com/3xdg8/
We designed a method to facilitate conversations about subtle and blatant forms of racial bias between White parents and their 8-12-year-olds.
We explored the effect of conversation on children’s implicit anti-Black attitudes, whether parents’ nonverbal discomfort and physiological arousal moderated the impact of racial socialization on children’s attitudes, and whether the type of racism that was discussed mattered.
White children’s implicit anti-Black attitudes significantly decreased, pre-to-post conversation. Parental tenseness, anxiety, and arousal were not linked to increases (but in some contexts decreases) in children’s implicit anti-Black attitudes.
Our findings suggest that, even when parents experience discomfort, facilitating parent-child racial socialization in White families may be an effective tool to reduce implicit anti-Black attitudes.
