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The present research examines American and Chilean children's performance in a race-relevant categorization task, demonstrating that American children aged 9-10 avoid mentioning race, even though this avoidance negatively impacts performance. Alternatively, Chilean children refer to race openly, reflecting differing societal norms towards race and demonstrating that American children's self-modulation ... read moreof behavior results from internalization of societal norms. In another study, ratings of the children's nonverbal behavior show that older American children in the race-relevant task evidence more negative nonverbal behavior than their Chilean peers or same-aged American children in a race-neutral task, suggesting that self-modulation is anxiety producing. This indicates that American children have internalized a colorblind perspective towards race relations, potentially negatively impacting interracial interactions (Apfelbaum, Sommers, & Norton, 2008).read less
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