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Child psychologist and university of chicago researcher dr. margaret beale spencer to design a pilot study for cnn and analyze the results. >> our children are always near us, you know, because we're a society, and what we put out there, kids report back. and you ask the question, they'll give you the answer. >> reporter: spencer's team tested more than 130 kids in eight schools with very different racial and economic demographics. half of the schools were in the north, half in the south. >> oh! nicely done. >> reporter: the country's much more diverse today than in the 1940s, the children in ...

And this color bar chart. the tests led us to three major findings. first, white children as a whole responded with a high rate of what researchers call white bias, identifying the color of their own skin with positive attributes and darker skin with negative attributes. >> show me the dumb child. >> dumb child? >> okay. why is she the dumb child? >> because she has black skin. >> show me the mean child. why is he the mean child? >> because he's brown. >> show me the bad child. why is he the bad child? >> because he's black. >> okay. show me the ugly child. why is he the ugly child? >> because...

Questions about the same images and the color bar chart. the tests led us to three major findings. first, white children as a whole responded with a high rate of what researchers call white bias, identifying the color of their own skin with positive attributes and darker skin with negative attributes. >> show me the dumb child. >> dumb child? >> okay. why is she the dumb child? >> because she has black skin. >> show me the mean child. why is he the mean child? >> because he's brown. >> show me the bad child. why is he the bad child? >> because he's black. >> okay. show me the ugly child. why i...