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From mind to mind: Investigating the cultural transmission of intergroup bias in children

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UNIVERSITY OF YORK 

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address: HESLINGTON
city: YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE
postcode: YO10 5DD
website: http://www.york.ac.uk

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 Coordinator Country United Kingdom [UK]
 Total cost 1˙223˙054 €
 EC max contribution 1˙223˙054 € (100%)
 Programme 1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
 Code Call ERC-2017-STG
 Funding Scheme ERC-STG
 Starting year 2018
 Duration (year-month-day) from 2018-01-01   to  2022-12-31

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1    UNIVERSITY OF YORK UK (YORK NORTH YORKSHIRE) coordinator 1˙223˙054.00

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 Project objective

Prejudice and discrimination are pressing social problems. Across Europe, the far right is on the rise, and individuals are often discriminated against on the basis of their race, gender or sexual orientation. The origins of these problematic attitudes and behaviours appear early in development, suggesting that we are passing on our biases to our children. Yet, our knowledge of the complex psychological processes by which these biases are learned remains rudimentary. MINDTOMIND experimentally investigates how children encode, select and transmit biased social information, and so provides a framework for understanding how intergroup attitudes are perpetuated across generations. Until now, artificial boundaries between different areas of psychology have prevented theoretical and empirical progress on this important subject. MINDTOMIND synthesizes cutting-edge research on cognitive development and experimental research on cultural transmission and intergroup psychology in order to provide a comprehensive account of this process. The series of experiments to test the proposed framework will answer three key questions. First, how do children respond to biased information they receive from others? Second, how do children select which social information to consume? Third, how do children transmit biased information to others in their social networks? MINDTOMIND will examine how learning, social motivation and cognitive biases interact to produce prejudice and discrimination. It will demonstrate how negative intergroup attitudes can emerge, become radicalised and spread through children’s social networks. In doing so, it will provide a step-change in our understanding of social cognitive development. In addition to far-reaching theoretical implications, this work will have broad societal implications. It will pave the way towards the development of research-led interventions that can reduce intergroup bias and thus contribute to a fairer and more egalitarian society.

 Publications

year authors and title journal last update
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2019 Niamh McLoughlin, Harriet Over
Encouraging children to mentalise about a perceived outgroup increases prosocial behaviour towards outgroup members
published pages: e12774, ISSN: 1363-755X, DOI: 10.1111/desc.12774
Developmental Science 22/3 2019-08-29
2018 Harriet Over, Cade McCall
Becoming us and them: Social learning and intergroup bias
published pages: e12384, ISSN: 1751-9004, DOI: 10.1111/spc3.12384
Social and Personality Psychology Compass 12/4 2019-08-29

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