Black And White Baby Doll Study

This time the studies looked at white children too.

Black and white baby doll study.

And though black children seemed to hold more positive views toward black dolls white children maintained an intense bias toward whiteness. In the original experiments the majority of the children chose the white dolls. 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. The dolls were the same except for their skin colour but most thought the white doll was nicer.

The clark doll experiment fri may 29th 2009 by abagond the clark doll experiment 1939 was an experiment done by dr kenneth clark and his wife mamie where they asked black children to choose between a black doll and a white doll. They asked black children a series of. 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. When davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll.