Black And White Baby Doll Study

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.

Black and white baby doll study.

The dolls were the same except for their skin colour but most thought the white doll was nicer. The experiment was designed by margaret beale spencer a child psychologist and university of chicago professor. Psychologist margaret beale spencer re created a questionnaire version of the doll test in 2010 for cnn and found that while there was a white bias in both black and white kids the bias was much. Cnn recreated the doll study in 2010 with cartoons of five children each with different shades of skin color.

And though black children seemed to hold more positive views toward black dolls white children maintained an intense bias toward whiteness. The clarks asked black children to choose between a white doll and because at the time no brown dolls were available a white doll painted brown. This time the studies looked at white children too. They asked black children a series of.