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By age 7, most children quickly spot individuals' social biases toward social groups, study finds
- April 7, 2026 at 12:20 AM
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Most elementary school-aged children have a surprising cognitive ability: they can detect—nearly as well as adults—when someone treats people from one social group differently than another. The study, "Children's and adults' detection of social biases," published in Child Development, demonstrates children's emerging capacity to recognize and reason about social bias.
Originally published at Phys.org