Christia Spears Brown
My research focuses on how children develop gender and ethnic stereotypes and how that process can be disrupted, and how children and adolescents understand and perceive individual-level and structural (i.e., policy-based) forms of gender and ethnic discrimination. My research is centered around the school context, with a focus on the role of teachers and peers, peer norms, and academic outcomes. Specifically, my research focuses on 3 themes. First, I examine children’s and adolescents’ perceptions of gender and racial/ethnic discrimination. We have conducted studies about perceptio...
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