The Strength of Children’s Race, Gender, and Attractiveness Biases: A Crossed-Categorization Analysis

Recent evidence suggests that the degree to which children favor attractive over unattractive others may be greater than the extent to which they favor same-race and same-gender others (Rennels & Langlois, 2014). The current research used a crossed-categorization design to provide evidence for the strength of attractiveness-based biases in children.