Reducing prejudice through promoting cross-group friendships

M Killen, K Luken Raz… - Review of General …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Around the globe, individuals are affected by exclusion, discrimination, and prejudice
targeting individuals from racial, ethnic, and immigrant backgrounds as well as crimes based …

Media use and the development of racial attitudes among US youth

LM Ward, E Bridgewater - Child Development Perspectives, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Because media provide a steady stream of models, they are especially poised to offer
formative information about race. Yet although US youth consume approximately 7 h of …

Promoting fair and just school environments: Develo** inclusive youth

M Killen, A Rutland - Policy insights from the behavioral and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Incidents of prejudice and discrimination in K–12 schools have increased over the past
decade around the world, including the United States. In 2018, more than two-thirds of the …

Broadening convenience samples to advance theoretical progress and avoid bias in developmental science

S Doebel, MC Frank - Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Diverse samples are valuable to the study of development, and to psychology more broadly.
But convenience samples—typically recruited from local populations close to universities …

White Americans' preference for black people in advertising has increased in the past 66 years: a meta-analysis

JD Lenk, J Hartmann, H Sattler - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2024 - pnas.org
This study investigates Black and White consumers' preferences for Black versus White
people in United States advertising contexts over 66 y, from 1956 until 2022, a time in which …

Testing the effectiveness of the Develo** Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial

M Killen, AR Burkholder, AP D'Esterre… - Child …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Develo** Inclusive Youth program is a classroom‐based, individually
administered video tool that depicts peer‐based social and racial exclusion, combined with …

Understanding the challenges and opportunities of talking to children about race and racism in child‐facing institutions

LS Wilton, J Sullivan, AF Albuja… - Social Issues and Policy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers from a range of disciplines emphasize that effectively socializing children
about race and racism is vital to promoting positive outcomes, such as disrupting the …

Empowering behaviors to address race with kids (EmBARK): A racial socialization program for white families

KE Scott, N Huth, E Fukuda, K Shutts… - Journal of applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract We evaluated the EmBARK (Empowering Behaviors to Address Race with Kids)
program, which we developed to help White parents in the US address race and racial …

The influence of linguistic form and causal explanations on the development of social essentialism

J Benitez, RA Leshin, M Rhodes - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Generic descriptions of social categories (eg, boys play baseball; girls have long hair) lead
children and adults to think of the referenced categories (ie, boys and girls) in essentialist …

A short-form drama series created for the digital media environment: A randomised controlled trial exploring effects on girls' body satisfaction, acceptance of …

H Lewis-Smith, G Pegram, P White, LM Ward… - Body image, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract 'Edutainment'micro-interventions are a scalable public health strategy that can
challenge media-related body image pressures and race-and weight-based stigma. This …