Thursday, November 11, 2010

Psychology and Race

I found a very powerful video of high school student who re-performs a famous psychological study by Dr. Kenneth Clark. Dr. Clark was an African-American psychologist who, in the 1940s, conducted famous experiments using dolls to study childrens' attitudes on race.



Dr. Clark testified as an expert witness in Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) and later became the first African-American president of the American Psychological Association.

From what I was able to find, I think that Dr. Clark’s “doll” experiments are among the first attempts to use psychological research as a means of promoting social change.

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