Monolingual but not bilingual infants demonstrate racial bias in social cue use
Abstract
Abstract Bilingualism exerts early and pervasive effects on cognition, observable in infancy. Thus far, investigations of infant bilingual cognition have focused on sensitivity to visual memory, executive function, and linguistic sensitivity. Much less research has focused on how bilingualism impacts processing of social cues. The present study sought to investigate whether bilingualism modulates the expression of one aspect of social processing: early racial bias. Using a gaze‐following paradigm, we investigated whether 18‐ to 20‐month‐old monolingual and bilingual infants favored their own race. Results demonstrated that monolingual infants favored their own race in following a model whose direction of gaze signaled an event. In contrast, bilingual infants demonstrated race‐neutral gaze‐following patterns, relying more heavily on the reliability of the behavior of the model over race. Findings suggest that bilingualism may have protective effects against the early emergence of racial bias.
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- Department of Psychology National University of Singapore Singapore
- Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences University of Delaware Newark Delaware
- Department of Psychology Princeton University Princeton New Jersey
- Department of Psychology University of Toronto Toronto ON Canada
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- Developmental Science
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- Journal Name: Developmental Science Journal Volume: 22 Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1363-755X
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- Wiley-Blackwell
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Singh, Leher, Quinn, Paul C., Xiao, Naiqi G., and Lee, Kang. Monolingual but not bilingual infants demonstrate racial bias in social cue use. Country unknown/Code not available: N. p., 2019.
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Singh, Leher, Quinn, Paul C., Xiao, Naiqi G., & Lee, Kang. Monolingual but not bilingual infants demonstrate racial bias in social cue use. Country unknown/Code not available. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12809
Singh, Leher, Quinn, Paul C., Xiao, Naiqi G., and Lee, Kang. Thu .
"Monolingual but not bilingual infants demonstrate racial bias in social cue use". Country unknown/Code not available. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12809.
@article{osti_1497245,
title = {Monolingual but not bilingual infants demonstrate racial bias in social cue use},
author = {Singh, Leher and Quinn, Paul C. and Xiao, Naiqi G. and Lee, Kang},
abstractNote = {Abstract Bilingualism exerts early and pervasive effects on cognition, observable in infancy. Thus far, investigations of infant bilingual cognition have focused on sensitivity to visual memory, executive function, and linguistic sensitivity. Much less research has focused on how bilingualism impacts processing of social cues. The present study sought to investigate whether bilingualism modulates the expression of one aspect of social processing: early racial bias. Using a gaze‐following paradigm, we investigated whether 18‐ to 20‐month‐old monolingual and bilingual infants favored their own race. Results demonstrated that monolingual infants favored their own race in following a model whose direction of gaze signaled an event. In contrast, bilingual infants demonstrated race‐neutral gaze‐following patterns, relying more heavily on the reliability of the behavior of the model over race. Findings suggest that bilingualism may have protective effects against the early emergence of racial bias.},
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journal = {Developmental Science},
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volume = 22,
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year = {Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2019}
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