Babies' Expectations About Racial Interactions

NCT05324007 | Completed Results

• 1 other identifier: IRB18-1257
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 128
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will examine whether infants view race as an inductively useful social cue to predict third-party social relationships.

Conditions

Infant Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Participants' Average Time Spent Looking at Stimuli According to Condition

  Infants' looking time to affiliation vs. disengagement stimuli was measured by two coders blind to the condition that infants were assigned to. Then, the values from each coders were compared and if there was disagreement, after discussion one value was selected. Thus, the reported outcome is the single value that both coders produced or agreed upon values from the two coders.

  After the infants completed the study (which lasted about 10 minutes), two coders viewed the video recording of the session to measure infants' looking at the affiliation and disengagement stimuli.

Study Arms (3)

White-White

EXPERIMENTAL

Infants will first view 4 familiarization trials, in which the two adults each take turns waving and saying a short sentence. Each trial will last 10.5s. Which adult speaks first and which side she appears on will be counterbalanced. These familiarization trials will ensure infants encode each person separately. Then infants will watch 6 test trials (3 affiliation and 3 disengagement). The test trials will alternate, and the order will be counterbalanced across infants. In affiliation trials, the two adults will say "hello" and wave, whereas in the disengagement trials, the two adults will say "hmph", and turn away from each other. Both affiliation and disengagement will have the same length (3s), with actors maintaining the same distance from each other throughout the video. The procedure will be identical for all arms except in "White-White" arm, the two adults infants see will be two White adults.

Other: Basic Science

Black-Black

EXPERIMENTAL

The procedure is identical to the "White-White" arm except the two adults infants see will be two Black adults.

Other: Basic Science

Black-White

EXPERIMENTAL

The procedure is identical to the "White-White" arm except the two adults infants see will be one White and one Black adult.

Other: Basic Science

Interventions

Basic Science OTHER

This is a basic science experiment to test whether infants' looking time to video stimuli differ according to the race of the individuals shown.

Black-Black; Black-White; White-White

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 8 Months - 14 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• full term (at least 37 weeks at birth)
• no known developmental delays

You may not qualify if:

• not full term (less than 37 weeks at birth)
• known developmental delays

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Chicago: lead

Study Sites (1)

Infant Learning and Development Laboratory at University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, 60637, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Infant Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Child Behavior; Behavior

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Dr. Hyesung Grace Hwang
• Organization: University of Chicago

hyesung@uchicago.edu

(773) 834-9791

Study Officials

• Hyesung G Hwang, PhD

  University of Chicago

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: QUADRUPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Principal Investigator

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 1, 2022
• First Posted: April 12, 2022
• Study Start: September 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: March 27, 2022
• Study Completion: March 27, 2022
• Last Updated: April 24, 2024
• Results First Posted: April 24, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF, ANALYTIC CODE
• Time Frame: Once data has been collected and cleaned it will be available to the public indefinitely.
• Access Criteria: Anonymized individual participant data will be publicly available for anyone to access on Open Science Framework repository.

Locations

US (1)