Educational Interventions for Youth

This project looks into the well-documented issue of children around the world developing biases based on ethnicity and race. Children come to represent the socially constructed notions of ‘ethnicity’ and ‘race’ as relevant categories for making predictions about individuals, interpreting ambiguous evidence, and making friendship choices. These early developing biases give rise to racial/ethnic prejudices that persist into adulthood and cause harm to individuals and communities through discrimination, social exclusion, and violence. Therefore, it is critically important to understand not only how ethnic/racial biases develop during childhood, but also how they can be changed with experience and learning. This research aims to bring together a diverse group of researchers (with regards to research expertise and methods of inquiry, as well as lived experience) to tackle this important issue.

NextGen Project
PIs: Anna Fisher and Catarina Vales, CMU; Shawna Alfonso Wells and Liz Miller, Pitt
NextGen Project Site

Digital Game: Power Core Values
‍PIs: Michael Christel and Ricardo Washington, CMU
Power Core Values Game and Workshop Results 10.23.23

Preventing Viral Racism on Tiktok
PIs: Daniel Klug, CMU; Ming-Te Wang and Christina Scanlon, Pitt; Chelsie Hall and Sheyda Domooei, Viral Moment; Alice Huguet, RAND
Decoding Viral Racism on TikTok: A Content Analysis and Interview Study to Inform Educational Interventions