Psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark, designed the “Doll Study” as a test to measure the psychological effects of segregation on black children. The Clarks’ “Doll Study” became the first psychological research to be cited by the Supreme Court and was significant in the Court’s decision to end school ...

In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African-American children. Drs. Clark used four dolls, identical except for color, to test children’s racial perceptions.

2018年3月27日 · Deceptively simple doll tests helped convince the Supreme Court to strike down school segregation. Updated: September 29, 2023 | Original: March 27, 2018. Dolls are for kids. So why were they...

2021年2月12日 · Two black scientists explored the effects of segregation on children. Their Doll Test played a key role in the Civil Rights movement. Martin Luther King day was last month, and this month is Black History month. We remember the Civil Rights movement. At the center of the story was a Supreme Court ruling, Brown v.

2014年5月17日 · The “doll test,” introduced as social science evidence in the lower-court cases that were rolled into Brown, and cited by the Supreme Court in support of its conclusion that segregation harmed ...

Over the course of 14 years, they developed and conducted what became known as “the doll tests”—groundbreaking experiments that revealed the psychological effects of segregation on African American children. The tests were conducted using several dolls, …

What was the "Doll Test?" During the 1940s psychologists Kenneth Clark and his wife Mamie Phipps Clark tried to demonstrate the negative effects of segregation on black children. They developed a test using four dolls, identical except for the skin color.

2022年9月28日 · The “Doll Test” was a psychological study conducted to test the racial perceptions of young children that proved to be crucial for understanding segregation’s effect on black children ...

2024年12月30日 · In 1947, psychological experts Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Clark conducted an investigation, colloquially deemed the “doll test,” which played an integral role in the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) case and the future legal system, particularly in combination with social science research.

In their so-called doll test, pioneering Black psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark investigated the effects of segregation by presenting children with two Black and two white baby dolls. “Show me the doll that you like best,” they said.