The Dominican Republic is a uniquely valuable context in which to study children's racial stereotyping and prejudice, in part because multiracial individuals comprise the majority of the population and race is viewed largely as a continuous rather than dichotomous construct. In two studies, we use developmental and social theories to ground an exploration of Dominican children's racial biases. In studies 1 (n = 54; ages 6-11) and 2 (n = 122; ages 6-11), children were given measures of racial identity, preference, stereotyping, and/or status. As expected, children identified their own race in a manner consistent with others (e.g., their teachers). Across a variety of tasks, children failed to consistently favor members of a specific racial group-as indicated by differing levels of racial stereotyping and associations of social status with different races. They did, however, sometimes systematically express greater liking of individuals of mixed racial heritage, a finding that was contingent on the modality of assessment (i.e., whether race was framed as a continuous vs. dichotomous category, and measured via nonforced vs. forced-choice methods). Implications for current theories of racial attitude development are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

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当多种族个体占多数时：多米尼加共和国儿童的种族态度。

多米尼加共和国是研究儿童种族刻板印象和偏见的独特有价值的背景，部分原因是多种族个体占人口的大多数，而种族在很大程度上被视为一个连续的而非二分法的结构。在两项研究中，我们使用发展和社会理论来探索多米尼加儿童的种族偏见。在研究 1（n = 54；6-11 岁）和 2（n = 122；6-11 岁）中，对儿童进行了种族认同、偏好、刻板印象和/或地位的测量。正如预期的那样，孩子们以与其他人（例如，他们的老师）一致的方式识别自己的种族。在各种任务中，儿童未能始终如一地偏爱特定种族群体的成员——正如不同程度的种族刻板印象和不同种族的社会地位关联所表明的那样。然而，他们有时确实系统地表达了对混合种族遗产个体的更大喜好，这一发现取决于评估方式（即，种族是否被定义为连续的还是二分法的类别，并通过非强迫与强迫来衡量——选择方法）。讨论了对当前种族态度发展理论的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。二分类别，并通过非强迫与强迫选择方法测量）。讨论了对当前种族态度发展理论的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。二分类别，并通过非强迫与强迫选择方法测量）。讨论了对当前种族态度发展理论的影响。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2021 APA，保留所有权利）。