SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY EXPERIMENT: Jane Elliot's experiment "Blue vs. Brown"
By: Amanda Caldwell

Hypothesis/ Research Question: How will Jane Elliot's experiment teach her students about racism & discrimination.

KEY TERMS

• Prejudice: consists of a negative stereotype and a strong, unreasonable dislike or hatred of a group.
• Psychological Functions: prejudice often serves toward off feelings of doubt and fear.

Explanation of the Blue vs. Brown experiment:
This experiment was conducted by how Jane Elliot's 3rd grade class was introduced to racism because she told the blue eyed kids that they were better than the brown eyed kids and the blued eyed kids got treated better. A blue eyed kid called a kid with brown eyes "Brown Eyes" and that kid got upset.

EXPLANATION OF THE EXPERIMENT CONTINUES: But the next day Jane Elliot told her students that she made a mistake, so then she told them that the brown eyed kids were the one that were better than the blue eyed kids. Therefore her experiment worked by teaching her kids about racism and discrimination against silly things like different eye colors.

Results of the experiment: The results of this experiment was that the 3rd graders learned that being racist was a bad thing. And that it was silly to judge someone by the color of their eyes. Therefore the hypothesis/ research question was proven during this experiment.

Real Life Examples:
People would be racist toward others because they were different than them.

FOLLOW UP STUDIES OR SIMILAR STUDIES:

• The First African American Governor in the U.S.(1872).

SOURCES:

• http://youtu.be/D0qKDiq1fNw
• Psychology book