@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {5666},
      author = {Hwang, Hyesung G. and Filippi, Courtney A. and Morales,  Santiago and Fox, Nathan A. and Woodward, Amanda},
      title = {Children's social wariness toward a different-race  stranger relates to individual differences in temperament},
      journal = {Developmental Science},
      address = {2023-03-24},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {When children first meet a stranger, there is great  variation in how much they will approach and engage with  the stranger. While individual differences in this type of  behavior—called social wariness—are well-documented in  temperament research, surprisingly little attention has  been paid to the social groups (such as race) of the  stranger and how these characteristics might influence  children's social wariness. In contrast, research on  children's social bias and interracial friendships rarely  examines individual differences in temperament and how  temperament might influence cross-group interactions. The  current study bridges the gap across these different fields  of research by examining whether the racial group of an  unfamiliar peer or adult moderates the association between  temperament and the social wariness that children display.  Utilizing a longitudinal dataset that collected multiple  measurements of children's temperament and behaviors  (including parent-reported shyness and social wariness  toward unfamiliar adults and peers) across early childhood,  we found that 2- to 7-year-old children with high  parent-reported shyness showed greater social wariness  toward a different-race stranger compared to a same-race  stranger, whereas children with low parent-reported shyness  did not. These results point to the importance of  considering racial group membership in temperament research  and the potential role that temperament might play in  children's cross-race interactions.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5666},
}