Investigating a race-based strength bias across development: evidence from children, adolescents, and adults
Paul Muentener
White adults perceive Black men as stronger, taller, heavier, and more capable of harm than White men of the same size. The current study aimed to investigate the development of this race-based size bias. Children (6–11 years), adolescents (12–17 years), and adults (18+-year-old college students) judged the strength, height, and weight of Black and White characters who participated in negative interactions; we recruited a racially diverse sample, though most participants in the final sample were