The article, "The development of Tibetan children’s racial bias in empathy: The mediating role of ethnic identity and wrongfulness of ethnic intergroup bias," appeared in Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology in April 2024.
The apology, published earlier this month, provides a detailed timeline of how a reader contacted the journal with concerns about the article soon after it was published, and how the editors responded. The reader had also asked the corresponding author to share the data reported in the publication, but hadn’t received a response.
The reader identified "biased language" in the article, such as the description of education in Tibet as "backward," and "deficit-oriented interpretation of findings" attributing the development of racial bias in Tibetan children at least in part to "the geographical environment and traditional way of life in Tibet." The area’s characteristics "limited its interactions with the outside world and contributed to a relatively closed mindset," the authors wrote in the original article.
