ABSTRACT
A 5-year old girl refuses to work with a classmate of a different ethnic group. A 9-year-old boy mutters a racial slur about a different-race peer. Such acts do not typically capture national and international headlines as instances of pervasive intergroup conict. Although most of the headlines capture the intergroup struggles of adults, prejudice is expressed among children as early as 4 years of age (e.g., Aboud, 1988; Bar-Tal, 1996).
