Zhou, Xingchen, Burton, A M orcid.org/0000-0002-2035-2084 and Jenkins, Rob orcid.org/0000-0003-4793-0435 (2021) Two Factors in Face Recognition:Whether You Know the Person's Face and Whether You Share the Person's Race. Perception. pp. 524-539. ISSN 0301-0066
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.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2021 |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Psychology (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2021 13:40 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2025 17:56 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/03010066211014016 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/03010066211014016 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177229 |
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