Prejudice in children shows up as withheld positive evaluations, not just overt negativity.

Evidence

Since Allport’s book, there has been a decline in the use of qualitative methods and the simple doll technique that asks children which of two racially different dolls is “nice,” “bad,” and so forth. Currently used multiitem tests include appropriate positive and negative evaluative terms and do not force a single selection. Prejudice in children may be revealed through the expression of outright negative evaluations or the withholding of positive evaluations normally made of ingroup peers (Aboud, 2003; see also Brown and Zagefka, ch. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1989

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the implicit-explicit prejudice distinction in adults (Rudman ch. 7) and to the mechanics of ingroup favoritism more broadly.