Black And White Baby Doll Study

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.

Black and white baby doll study. Psychologist margaret beale spencer re created a questionnaire version of the doll test in 2010 for cnn and found that while there was a white bias in both black and white kids the bias was much. This time the studies looked at white children too. 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. When davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll.

In the original experiments the majority of the children chose the white dolls. The dolls were the same except for their skin colour but most thought the white doll was nicer. And though black children seemed to hold more positive views toward black dolls white children maintained an intense bias toward whiteness. The experiment was designed by margaret beale spencer a child psychologist and university of chicago professor.