What the 'Toogits' and the 'Flurps' have to do with structural inequality
was conducted by the social psychologist Rebecca A. Leshin and the developmental psychologist Marjorie Rhodes, both researchers and professors at New York University. It will give people on either side of America’s history wars some things to consider. What follows is a conversation I had with Leshin edited for clarity and length. I describe myself as doing research at the intersection of social psychology, developmental psychology, and cognitive psychology.
Could you explain exactly what you all did in the experiment? It seems that the kids participating were given three stories. Is that right? And then the “third-party” power explanation was actually quite similar. It was still a structural explanation about rules that were made up. But we said a long time ago, people who got to make the rules made a rule about where Toogits and Flurps could live, which types of houses they can live in, etc. There's some passive voice in there and we weren't implicating a member of either group.
You're saying the group names and stories take kids into an imaginary space where you don’t bring into the experiment all the things that they know about the world?Got it. Now, when I read line one of the study, I thought, oh boy, there are people who would definitely disagree with this: “Children begin to participate in systems of inequality from a young age, demonstrating biases for high-status groups, and willingly accepting group disparities.
We asked about the distribution of candies at a school. Inequality is couched in terms of material resources. Exactly. And then there's this third measure that we kind of captured within our responses to inequality, which is perception of the status hierarchy as unfair. So we asked, is it fair or unfair? And then: how unfair or fair is it?
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