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...studies duplicated the groundbreaking investigations by Clark and his late wife Mamie, also a psychologist, into the development of racial identity among American black children. The Clarks asked 253 youngsters, ages 3 to 7, who attended schools in Springfield, Mass., and Little Rock to choose between four dolls, two black and two white. The startling result: two-thirds of the children preferred white dolls. So important were the findings that they were cited by the Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision mandating school desegregation...
...years ago Psychologist Darlene Powell-Hopson of Middletown, Conn., tested 155 black and white youngsters between the ages of three and six in Headstart programs or preschools in New York City, on Long Island and in Connecticut. Using 20 Cabbage Patch dolls identical except for color, Hopson asked the children to give her the doll that "you want to be, you want to play with, is a nice color and would take home if you could." To Hopson's surprise, 65% of the black youngsters selected white dolls...
...Cambodians, in particular, stress also results from terrible memories of killing, torture and starvation as the Khmer Rouge savaged their country. The nightmare of those years, says Psychologist Jeanne Nidorf of the University of California at San Diego, produces a "posttraumatic stress disorder that just doesn't go away...
Asking for help is not easy for Asian Americans. "They are likely to say that willpower can resolve problems," explains Psychologist Stanley Sue, who has specialized in their emotional difficulties. He has found that the problems of these young people "are highly submerged" because they have been "taught not to exhibit emotions in public." Nidorf notes that youthful Indochinese are so conditioned to polite behavior that they hesitate to complain. She recalls the case of a Cambodian girl who was given the wrong textbook but said nothing. Because she was afraid to tell the teacher about the error, she suffered...
...academic establishment. Bankrolled by more than 100 business and government sponsors, he has filled his $45 million facility with a group of 120 gifted researchers that includes some of the brightest and quirkiest minds in computer science: Marvin Minsky, dean of artificial-intelligence research; Seymour Papert, disciple of Child Psychologist Jean Piaget and a leading ( advocate of computerized education; Alan Kay, one of the most influential designers of personal computers...