[News] When Social Fear Is Missing, So Are Racial Stereotypes, Shows Study of Children With

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When Social Fear Is Missing, So Are Racial Stereotypes, Shows Study of Children With Williams Syndrome

 

ScienceDaily (Apr. 12, 2010) — Children with the genetic condition known as Williams syndrome have unusually friendly natures because they lack the sense of fear that the rest of us feel in many social situations. Now, a study reported in the April 13th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, suggests that children with Williams Syndrome are missing something else the rest of us have from a very tender age: the proclivity to stereotype others based on their race.

 

When social fear is missing, so are racial stereotypes, shows study of children with Williams syndrome