Emotion, an American Psychological Association (APA) journal.While previous work has shown this effect in adults, this study is the first to show how anger bias based on race may extend to teachers and Black elementary and middle-school children, said lead researcher Amy G.
Halberstadt, PhD, a professor of psychology at North Carolina State University.“This anger bias can have huge consequences by increasing Black children’s experience of not being ‘seen’ or understood by their teachers and then feeling like school is not for them,” she said.
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