Your Baby Is a Racist—and Why You Can Live With That

You always suspected babies were no good, didn’t you? They’re loud, narcissistic, spoiled, volatile and not exactly possessed of good table manners. Now it turns out that they’re racists too. MoreScience Proves It: The Senate Really Is Junior HighGood Manners on Death Row: Why Condemned Southerners Are More PoliteMen Charged With Toppling Ancient Rock Formation Avoid Jail Time Huffington PostHere's An Updated Tally Of All The People Who Have Ever Died From A Marijuana Overdose Huffington PostDonnie Wahlberg Talks Boston Marathon … and Marriage! PeopleThe latest evidence for that decidedly unlovely trait comes from research out of the University of Washington that actually sought to explore one of babies’ more admirable characteristics: their basic sense of fairness. In the study, 15-month-old toddlers watched an experimenter with a collection of four small toys share them either evenly or unevenly with two other adult volunteers. When allowed to choose which experimenters the babies wanted to play with later, 70% of them preferred the ones who had divided the toys evenly. Popular Among Subscribers Barbara Brown Taylor Faces the Darkness Subscribe The Rise of Fake PotRock With Michael Jackson (Again)Nice, but there was an exception: when the two adults who were receiving the evenly or unevenly divided toys were of different races and the race of the one who got more toys matched the babies’ own, the 70...
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