Prejudice in children does not rise gradually and does not track parental attitudes.

Evidence

Although most people accepted the learning-theory explanation for a gradual increase in prejudice with age, as summarized by Brand, Ruiz, and Padilla (1974), this was challenged by findings that the increase was not so gradual (e.g. Asher & Allan, 1966; Clark, 1955) and that there was little correlation between the attitudes of parents and children (see Aboud & Amato, 2001). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1999

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the intergenerational transmission assumptions in the Allport reassessment; parents do not straightforwardly pass attitudes to children.
• QUESTION: If child prejudice does not track parental attitudes, what drives its developmental onset? Likely ingroup bias and cognitive development rather than modeling.
• corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1999