Psychology Dept. Class of 1960 Scholars Colloquium: “How to Raise an Anti-Racist Child”

Dr. Lori Markson, Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, will present “How to Raise an Anti-Racist Child” on Thursday, April 20, at 4:15 p.m., in Wachenheim 113. She is also the Principal Investigator of the Cognition and Development Lab.

Dr. Markson’s research investigates how infants and young children think, reason, and learn about the world around them, with a focus on the development of early social-cognitive capacities. Some of our current projects explore children’s thinking about skin color inheritance, the influence of parental racial socialization strategies, understanding of racial and ethnic categories, social reasoning in infants and preschoolers, the development of optimism, and the development of and preempting racism in young children.