Babies' Expectations About Racial Interactions

Infant Behavior Clinical Trial

— BEARI  

Official title:

Babies' Expectations About Racial Interactions

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05324007
• Other study ID #: IRB18-1257
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 1, 2021
• Est. completion date: March 27, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: University of Chicago
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

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

Description:

Based on findings that infants expect more affiliation between same language speakers than different language speakers (i.e., infants will look longer at affiliation between different language speakers than same language speakers), this study will assess whether infants' expectations about intra- and inter-racial interactions will also follow the same pattern as language. After informed consent, participants who meet the eligibility requirements will be randomized into one of the 3 conditions: Watching (1) two White adults affiliating and disengaging, (2) two Black adults affiliating and disengaging, and (3) one White and one Black adults affiliating and disengaging.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 128
• Est. completion date: March 27, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: March 27, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 8 Months to 14 Months

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Infant Behavior

Intervention

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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Infant Learning and Development Laboratory at University of Chicago	Chicago	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Chicago

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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.