NCT05324007

Babies' Expectations About Racial Interactions

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Chicago · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Months – 14 Months
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will examine whether infants view race as an inductively useful social cue to predict third-party social relationships.

Detailed description

Based on findings that infants expect more affiliation between same language speakers than different language speakers (i.e., infants will look longer at affiliation between different language speakers than same language speakers), this study will assess whether infants' expectations about intra- and inter-racial interactions will also follow the same pattern as language. After informed consent, participants who meet the eligibility requirements will be randomized into one of the 3 conditions: Watching (1) two White adults affiliating and disengaging, (2) two Black adults affiliating and disengaging, and (3) one White and one Black adults affiliating and disengaging.

Conditions

• Infant Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Basic Science	This is a basic science experiment to test whether infants' looking time to video stimuli differ according to the race of the individuals shown.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-03-27
• Completion: 2022-03-27
• First posted: 2022-04-12
• Last updated: 2024-04-24
• Results posted: 2024-04-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States