Catholic and Protestant young people's ratings of stereotyped Protestant and Catholic faces*

The present paper describes a series of studies which suggest that facial stimuli may provide a method of assessing intergroup attitudes in children in Northern Ireland. Experiments 1 and 2 outline the selection and testing of suitable stereotyped face stimuli; while Expt 3 describes an attempt to measure adolescents' attitudes toward both their own and other groups using these faces. Results indicated differences between the two religious groups in their ratings of the two face types, which produce an insight into young people's perceptions of in‐group and out‐group membership in Northern Ireland.