Black And White Baby Doll Study

The dolls were the same except for their skin colour but most thought the white doll was nicer.

Black and white baby doll study. And though black children seemed to hold more positive views toward black dolls white children maintained an intense bias toward whiteness. They asked black children a series of. 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. In the original experiments the majority of the children chose the white dolls.

When davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll. 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. 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. This time the studies looked at white children too.