Racists are born that way

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Babies show racial bias, study finds

Babies are more likely to choose playmates of their own ethnicity in a phenomenon known as 'in-group bias'

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Babies show racial bias when picking playmates, a study suggests.


Infants aged 15 months normally choose a playmate who is perceived as being fair, sharing toys equally for example, regardless of that person’s colour.


But if a baby sees a person of the same race as them unfairly distribute toys in a way that benefits another of their race then the baby wants to be playmates with that person.


Babies are also more likely to help those of their ethnicity, an effect known as in-group bias, where people favour those with the same characteristics.

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The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, found that when it came to picking a playmate, the babies picked the fair researcher less often when the unfair one had given more toys to the white recipient rather than the Asian one.

The researchers concluded that this implied babies could take into account both race and social history when deciding which person to play with.

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