Two Factors in Face Recognition: Whether You Know the Person's Face and Whether You Share the Person's Race. (June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Two Factors in Face Recognition: Whether You Know the Person's Face and Whether You Share the Person's Race. (June 2021)
- Main Title:
- Two Factors in Face Recognition: Whether You Know the Person's Face and Whether You Share the Person's Race
- Authors:
- Zhou, Xingchen
Burton, A. M.
Jenkins, Rob - Abstract:
- One of the best-known phenomena in face recognition is the other-race effect, the observation that own-race faces are better remembered than other-race faces. However, previous studies have not put the magnitude of other-race effect in the context of other influences on face recognition. Here, we compared the effects of (a) a race manipulation (own-race/other-race face) and (b) a familiarity manipulation (familiar/unfamiliar face) in a 2 × 2 factorial design. We found that the familiarity effect was several times larger than the race effect in all performance measures. However, participants expected race to have a larger effect on others than it actually did. Face recognition accuracy depends much more on whether you know the person's face than whether you share the same race.
- Is Part Of:
- Perception. Volume 50:Number 6(2021)
- Journal:
- Perception
- Issue:
- Volume 50:Number 6(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 50, Issue 6 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 50
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0050-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 524
- Page End:
- 539
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Subjects:
- face perception -- memory -- cognition -- social cognition, familiarity, other-race effect
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153.705 - Journal URLs:
- http://pec.sagepub.com/ ↗
http://www.pion.co.uk/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/03010066211014016 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0301-0066
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