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15 likes as of now but has anyone cared to check the source? I did. The article and paper linked here is not even about this but whether there is a mismatch between adults perception of when babies start to percieve race and when they actually do. This in turn, the 3-month-old part, is based on an earlier study that doesn't _really_ confirm that. Not in that way anyway. They use the word preference in the discussion but the only thing they are checking for is the length of time 3-month-olds look at a given picture, which is not a conclusive indicator of preference. And the conclusion they come to is that what matters is the type of faces the 3-month-old is surrounded by already. I.e. if they are used to seeing the race of the faces they were shown. One of the subject groups which lived in a diverse area didn't show any meaningful "preference" (i.e. time looking at the faces) Meaning the researches are saying it is environment and not ethnicity that matters here.

Totally a legit study. Same with being able to recognize emotions on faces that look more similar to your own. Being part Asian I can recognize others who are part Asian way easier than my Asian or white counterparts. Preferring, and recognizing are a far cry from hating and being racist.

Truth should never be unpopular if it’s what it is!

I think it's due to the color of their care takers more than the color of their own skin, no? Did any of the researched kids have biracial parents etc...I am black and spanish,was adopted by an Italian family and was scared of my case workers whom I rarely saw and were black.

Isn't it usually more about who they're raised around, less about who looks like them? Since they don't know yet what they look like?

Seeing and categorising different faces doesn't mean they are racist. Children at this age recognise and respond to faces that are more familiar to them. This is due to their developing visual perception, not cognition.

its just science. babies especially may feel more comfortable around people who look like mom and dad.

Finding someone who looks like you comforting or beautiful is what natural selection taught us to survive back when we lived in huts. Choosing to care about people who don't is what it means to be truly human.

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It's only natural to seek similar features ... My dogs would be called racist because they rarely see coloured people walking their dogs when out that when someone of colour does talk to them they are not happy as not their norm

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But it isn't about higher thought, just the result of the brain's tendency towards laziness. One of my professors at University studied race his whole career, has written several books, and theorized that the brain tended to pick out noticeable traits to group people together, and attribute shared attitudes and characteristics to them all. His name is Rupert NaCoste. I graduated in 2006, and his classes still impact my life today.

Probably because their family tends to be the same skin colour as them so at that age that seems more familiar

How does a 3 month old even know what they look like?

Everyone who has taken a developmental psych class knows this.

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Your comment is disingenuous. They don't prefer faces from certain racial groups. They prefer that which is familiar. A 3 month old baby doesn't even know what it looks like. How are they going to know if someone looks like them?

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Racists like to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. It’s environment, if that little white kid grew up exclusively around Black people, she would *prefer* Black people and vice versa. The same results come out when languages are tested. There are no degrees in the myth of white superiority, no undergrad, no grad and certainly no PhDs. On the other hand there are multiple schools, and colleges on Black studies. There are undergrad and grad degrees, also PhDs. You might want to stop show casing your ignorance. (Although I know you won’t)

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Sigh. I hope you realize just how ridiculous you sound. Three month old babies do NOT KNOW what they look like. They cannot identify themselves in a mirror until they are older than that.So there is no way that they can "prefer faces that look like them". They may prefer faces that look like their mother. So a mixed-race or adopted baby may prefer faces that do not look like them at all. They also do not use "race" to categorize faces, since there is no such thing. They may categorize faces based on eye color, face color, certain facial features, but their categorizations will be based on those things. Psychologists produce all sorts of BS research like this because they are sh!t at research methodology. I have reached a point where I can make a good guess as to the logical and statistical fallacies that riddle most of these studies even before I read them.

I don‘t see what a Religion has to do with being white or not.