Other Affiliated Programs: Mountaintop Summer Experience

Students on Summer Project Team:
Afra Elif Aglar 'G, Psychology
Francesca Knudsen '21, Psychology / Health, Medicine & Society
Masma Mutallimova 'G, Educational Leadership
Sheridan Scott '22, Behavioral Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor(s): Debbie Laible, Professor, Psychology

Project Video: Click here to view

Project description:
Full Project Title: Developing Lab Tasks to Measure how European-American Mothers Socialize Racial Attitudes in Young Children

How are attitudes and perspectives of white children toward other races formed in the earliest parts of childhood from their parents? This project is designing and implementing laboratory studies, to understand what factors lead to the formation of racial understanding, and dig deeper into verbal and nonverbal messages from parents.