Psychologists Kenneth Bancroft Clark and his wife, Mamie Phipps Clark, designed the “Doll Study” as a test to measure the psychological effects of segregation on black children.

In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological effects of segregation on African …

The "doll test" is a psychological experiment designed in the 1940s in the USA to test the degree of marginalization felt by African American children caused by prejudice, discrimination and...

The coloring test was administered to 160 African American children between the ages of five and seven years old. The children were given a piece of coloring paper with a leaf, an apple, an orange, a …

Mar 27, 2018 · Deceptively simple doll tests helped convince the Supreme Court to strike down school segregation.

Apr 25, 2025 · In the Clark Doll study, Kenneth and Mamie Clark asked Black children to choose between dolls identical in every way except skin color.

Over the course of 14 years, they developed and conducted what became known as “the doll tests”—groundbreaking experiments that revealed the psychological effects of segregation on …