S5 Ep02: Your Mind on Origins of Social Bias
with Dr. Hyesung Grace Hwang
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How do babies learn to navigate diversity in their social worlds? Dr. Hyesung Grace Hwang shares her infant neuroscience (EEG) work showing that early “bias” might be less about emotions (like fear or disklike) and more about attention and information processing. We discuss how the environment, specifically neighborhood diversity shapes infants’ brain responses, and the changing cues kids use as they get older to reason about nationality.
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Dr. Hyesung Grace Hwang
Research discussed
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DeJesus, J. M., Hwang, H. G., Dautel, J. B., & Kinzler, K. D. (2018). “American= English speaker” before “American= white”: The development of children's reasoning about nationality. Child Development, 89(5), 1752-1767.
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Hazelbaker, T., Brown, C. S., Nenadal, L., & Mistry, R. S. (2022). Fostering anti-racism in white children and youth: Development within contexts. American Psychologist, 77(4), 497.
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Hickok, G. (2014). The myth of mirror neurons: The real neuroscience of communication and cognition. W. W. Norton & Company.
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Hwang, H. G., Debnath, R., Meyer, M., Salo, V. C., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2021). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental science, 24(4), e13070.