Babies' Expectations About Racial Interactions

NCT ID: NCT05324007

Last Updated: 2024-04-24

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

128 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-09-01

Study Completion Date

2022-03-27

Brief Summary

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This study will examine whether infants view race as an inductively useful social cue to predict third-party social relationships.

Detailed Description

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Based on findings that infants expect more affiliation between same language speakers than different language speakers (i.e., infants will look longer at affiliation between different language speakers than same language speakers), this study will assess whether infants' expectations about intra- and inter-racial interactions will also follow the same pattern as language. After informed consent, participants who meet the eligibility requirements will be randomized into one of the 3 conditions: Watching (1) two White adults affiliating and disengaging, (2) two Black adults affiliating and disengaging, and (3) one White and one Black adults affiliating and disengaging.

Conditions

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Infant Behavior

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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White-White

Infants will first view 4 familiarization trials, in which the two adults each take turns waving and saying a short sentence. Each trial will last 10.5s. Which adult speaks first and which side she appears on will be counterbalanced. These familiarization trials will ensure infants encode each person separately. Then infants will watch 6 test trials (3 affiliation and 3 disengagement). The test trials will alternate, and the order will be counterbalanced across infants. In affiliation trials, the two adults will say "hello" and wave, whereas in the disengagement trials, the two adults will say "hmph", and turn away from each other. Both affiliation and disengagement will have the same length (3s), with actors maintaining the same distance from each other throughout the video. The procedure will be identical for all arms except in "White-White" arm, the two adults infants see will be two White adults.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Basic Science

Intervention Type OTHER

This is a basic science experiment to test whether infants' looking time to video stimuli differ according to the race of the individuals shown.

Black-Black

The procedure is identical to the "White-White" arm except the two adults infants see will be two Black adults.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Basic Science

Intervention Type OTHER

This is a basic science experiment to test whether infants' looking time to video stimuli differ according to the race of the individuals shown.

Black-White

The procedure is identical to the "White-White" arm except the two adults infants see will be one White and one Black adult.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Basic Science

Intervention Type OTHER

This is a basic science experiment to test whether infants' looking time to video stimuli differ according to the race of the individuals shown.

Interventions

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Basic Science

This is a basic science experiment to test whether infants' looking time to video stimuli differ according to the race of the individuals shown.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* full term (at least 37 weeks at birth)
* no known developmental delays

Exclusion Criteria

* not full term (less than 37 weeks at birth)
* known developmental delays
Minimum Eligible Age

8 Months

Maximum Eligible Age

14 Months

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of Chicago

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Hyesung Grace Hwang

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Hyesung G Hwang, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Chicago

Locations

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Infant Learning and Development Laboratory at University of Chicago

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Document Type: Informed Consent Form

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Other Identifiers

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IRB18-1257

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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