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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 524-539 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Perception |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| Early online date | 13 May 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2021 |