Discrimination of faces of the same and other race and gender modulated by familiarity
Discrimination of faces of the same and other race and gender modulated by familiarity
Author(s): Vesna Barzut, Sunčica ZdravkovićSubject(s): Social psychology and group interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Experimental Pschology, Neuropsychology
Published by: Društvo psihologa Srbije
Keywords: face perception; the own-race bias; the other-race effect; the own-gender bias; familiar faces;
Summary/Abstract: This study aimed to replicate, for the first time on Serbian population, the own-race bias (ORB), a classical effect from the face perception domain. The ORB was additionally contrasted with familiarity and the own-gender bias (OGB). Recognition accuracy for own race faces was higher in comparison both to African (Z=3.29, p<0.01) and Asian faces (Z= 2.59, p<0.01).The introduction of famous faces led to a significant drop in the ORB. However, in all of the conditions a “seen before” effect was measured, suggesting better recognition for own race faces, independent of familiarity. The OGB was obtained for own-race faces (χ2 (28, 7) = 119, 34 p<0,05) while there were no differences in recognition accuracy between the own and the other-race faces of the other gender. These results imply that the ORB could be explained, at least partially, by the OGB. However, these results were obtained on an exclusively female sample.
Journal: Psihologija
- Issue Year: 46/2013
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 45-59
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
