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Pain perception and racial bias evident in childhood

March 4, 2014 by

A new University of Virginia psychology study has found that a sample of mostly white American children - as young as 7, and particularly by age 10 - report that black children feel less pain than white children.The study, which builds on previous research on bias among adults involving pain perception, is published in the Feb. 28 issue of the British Journal of Developmental Psychology.

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