Black And White Baby Doll Study

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Black and white baby doll study.

The experiment was designed by margaret beale spencer a child psychologist and university of chicago professor. Psychologist margaret beale spencer re created a questionnaire version of the doll test in 2010 for cnn and found that while there was a white bias in both black and white kids the bias was much. In the original experiments the majority of the children chose the white dolls. The clark doll experiment fri may 29th 2009 by abagond the clark doll experiment 1939 was an experiment done by dr kenneth clark and his wife mamie where they asked black children to choose between a black doll and a white doll.

Cnn recreated the doll study in 2010 with cartoons of five children each with different shades of skin color. When davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll. How an experiment with dolls helped lead to school integration kenneth clark observing a child playing with black and white dolls part of a study that he and his wife who was also a psychologist. The clarks asked black children to choose between a white doll and because at the time no brown dolls were available a white doll painted brown.