ABSTRACT

Adultification, perceiving a child as older and more mature, and anger bias, perceiving anger where it does not exist, are two phenomena disproportionally imposed on Black children compared to White children. The current study assessed whether perceiving a Black child as older increases the odds of mistakenly perceiving anger. Participating were 152 parents who viewed video representations of 40 children in an emotion understanding paradigm. Black children were not seen as older than White children but they did have 1.27 higher odds of being misperceived as angry (p < .05). Additionally, for each year increase in perceived age, the odds of anger bias increased by 1.04 for the Black children (p < .05), but did not increase for White children. Implications of this finding include Black children receiving increased consequences when adults perceive them as older and angry.

摘要

成人化，认为孩子年龄更大，更成熟，以及愤怒偏见，在不存在愤怒的地方感知愤怒，与白人儿童相比，这是两种不成比例地强加给黑人儿童的现象。目前的研究评估了认为黑人儿童年龄较大是否会增加错误地感知愤怒的几率。参与的有 152 名家长，他们以情绪理解范式观看了 40 名儿童的视频表现。黑人儿童不被视为比白人儿童大，但他们被误认为愤怒的几率确实高出 1.27 ( p  < .05)。此外，感知年龄每增加一年，黑人儿童的愤怒偏见几率增加 1.04（p < .05)，但对于白人儿童没有增加。这一发现的含义包括当成年人认为黑人儿童年龄较大且愤怒时，他们会受到更大的影响。