<p>In addition to the descriptions of these particular students, at the site mentioned above by Kate Gladstone and also shown a bit in the documentary (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott</a>)</p>

<p>You might consider what's known from the broader set of studies using this type of manipulation. This rich literature is valuable for your question because the Blue eyes/Brown eyes study was more a demonstration than a study and has not been repeated much (see <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm</a>)</p>

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<p>In the <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lesson-of-a-lifetime-72754306/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">"blue eyes/brown eyes" exercise</a> created by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jane Elliott</a> in the 1960s, she divided a group of schoolchildren by eye color and characterized one of them (e.g., the blue eyed group) as an inferior group. The aim of the exercise is to show how racism works and how it feels to be discriminated against.</p>

<p>Is the exercise effective? What are the psychological consequences of it? Does the exercise still "work" today? What are the ethics when this exercise is done with adults or children?</p>

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Welcome to Stack Exchange. Perhaps some of the people at Cognitive Sciences SE may know what study you are referring to, but for me personally, it would help if you could provide a reference, a web page, or at least a name of the "small white female". As of now, this question doesn't make sense to me.
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The experimenters name was Jane Elliot.
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I edited the question a bit. A link would still help a lot.
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Thank you for the edit.  This is certainly more coherent and captures what I was asking about.
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Several survivors of “blue eyes/Brian eyes” experiments — including me — describe our experiences in comments at https://everything2.com/title/Blue+Eye+%252F+Brown+Eye+experiment
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What are the effects of the "blue eyes/brown eyes" racism exercise?
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# What are the effects of the "blue eyes/brown eyes" racism exercise?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-03-15)

In the ["blue eyes/brown eyes" exercise](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lesson-of-a-lifetime-72754306/) created by [Jane Elliott](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott) in the 1960s, she divided a group of schoolchildren by eye color and characterized one of them (e.g., the blue eyed group) as an inferior group. The aim of the exercise is to show how racism works and how it feels to be discriminated against.

Is the exercise effective? What are the psychological consequences of it? Does the exercise still "work" today? What are the ethics when this exercise is done with adults or children?

**Tags:** social-psychology, attitudes, racism

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Welcome to Stack Exchange. Perhaps some of the people at Cognitive Sciences SE may know what study you are referring to, but for me personally, it would help if you could provide a reference, a web page, or at least a name of the "small white female". As of now, this question doesn't make sense to me.  
> **username_0**: The experimenters name was Jane Elliot.  
> **username_1**: I edited the question a bit. A link would still help a lot.  
> **username_0**: Thank you for the edit.  This is certainly more coherent and captures what I was asking about.  
> **username_2**: Several survivors of “blue eyes/Brian eyes” experiments — including me — describe our experiences in comments at https://everything2.com/title/Blue+Eye+%252F+Brown+Eye+experiment  

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### Answer by username_3 on 2018-08-24. Score: 1

In addition to the descriptions of these particular students, at the site mentioned above by username_2 and also shown a bit in the documentary (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Elliott>)

You might consider what's known from the broader set of studies using this type of manipulation. This rich literature is valuable for your question because the Blue eyes/Brown eyes study was more a demonstration than a study and has not been repeated much (see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_group_paradigm>)


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