Black And White Baby Doll Study

This time the studies looked at white children too.

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. When davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll. Cnn recreated the doll study in 2010 with cartoons of five children each with different shades of skin color. 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 experiment was designed by margaret beale spencer a child psychologist and university of chicago professor. They asked black children a series of. 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.