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Babies' Brain Responses to Strangers
Sponsor: University of California Santa Cruz
Summary
Researchers at the Diversity in Development Lab at UC Santa Cruz are investigating how babies' brain activities respond to people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds.
Official title: The Malleability of Social Group Understanding in Infancy and Early Childhood
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
7 Months - 12 Months
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
100
Start Date
2024-07-23
Completion Date
2025-10
Last Updated
2025-03-06
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Infants observing familiar and unfamiliar racial groups
All infants will see videos of people from familiar and unfamiliar racial backgrounds. Depending on the caregiver's race, infants will be assigned to see people who are from the same racial background as their caregiver (i.e., familiar) and people who are not.
Locations (1)
Social Science 2 Building
Santa Cruz, California, United States