And though black children seemed to hold more positive views toward black dolls white children maintained an intense bias toward whiteness.
Black and white baby doll study.
In the original experiments the majority of the children chose the white dolls.
When davis repeated the experiment 15 out of 21 children also chose the white dolls over the black doll.
They asked black children a series of.
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.
The experiment was designed by margaret beale spencer a child psychologist and university of chicago professor.
This time the studies looked at white children too.
How an experiment with dolls helped lead to school integration kenneth clark observing a child playing with black and white dolls part of a study that he and his wife who was also a psychologist.
The dolls were the same except for their skin colour but most thought the white doll was nicer.