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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• de Bruijn, Ymke
• Emmen, Rosanneke A.G.
• van Veen, Daudi
• Mesman, Judi

Titel

Priming attachment and diversity ideologies: Effects on ethnic bias in children's altruistic sharing in a dictator game

Ist Teil von

• Acta psychologica, 2022-10, Vol.230, p.103746-103746, Article 103746

Ort / Verlag

Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Children often show a positive ingroup bias in altruistic behaviors such as sharing. Insight in factors related to ethnic bias in sharing can help towards understanding the origins of inequality in the distribution of resources in society. The present study examined the effect of priming secure attachment (versus positive affect) and multiculturalism (versus color-evasiveness) on ingroup bias in dominant ethnic group children's altruistic sharing. One hundred twenty-five White Dutch children (45 % boys, 55 % girls) between 7 and 11 years old (Mage = 8.47, SDage = 0.87) participated in a Dictator game after being primed. The Dictator game was played against three same-gender children with different ethnic backgrounds (White, Black, Middle Eastern). Results support the idea that priming secure attachment and multiculturalism can decrease ingroup bias in dominant ethnic group children's altruistic sharing, although the effects do not strengthen each other and are effective in situations with different trade-offs and interaction partners. Future research is needed to disentangle the effectiveness of secure attachment and multiculturalism messages in different sharing situations and with interaction partners with different ethnic backgrounds. Results from the present study provide starting points from which to further examine which messages potentially positively impact children's interethnic relations. •Priming secure attachment can decrease White children's ingroup bias in sharing.•Priming multiculturalism can decrease White children's ingroup bias in sharing.•Attachment and multiculturalism primes do not strengthen each other's effects.•Effectiveness seems dependent on sharing conditions and ethnicity of the other.