TY - JOUR
T1 - Perceptual Processes in the Cross-Race Effect
T2 - Evidence From Eyetracking
AU - McDonnell, Gerald P.
AU - Bornstein, Brian H.
AU - Laub, Cindy E.
AU - Mills, Mark
AU - Dodd, Michael D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2014/11/2
Y1 - 2014/11/2
N2 - The cross-race effect (CRE) is the tendency to have better recognition accuracy for same-race than for other-race faces due to differential encoding strategies. Research exploring the nature of encoding differences has yielded few definitive conclusions. The present experiments explored this issue using an eyetracker during a recognition task involving White participants viewing White and African American faces. Participants fixated faster and longer on the upper features of White faces and the lower features of African American faces. When instructing participants to attend to certain features in African American faces, this pattern was exaggerated. Gaze patterns were related to improved recognition accuracy.
AB - The cross-race effect (CRE) is the tendency to have better recognition accuracy for same-race than for other-race faces due to differential encoding strategies. Research exploring the nature of encoding differences has yielded few definitive conclusions. The present experiments explored this issue using an eyetracker during a recognition task involving White participants viewing White and African American faces. Participants fixated faster and longer on the upper features of White faces and the lower features of African American faces. When instructing participants to attend to certain features in African American faces, this pattern was exaggerated. Gaze patterns were related to improved recognition accuracy.
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U2 - 10.1080/01973533.2014.958227
DO - 10.1080/01973533.2014.958227
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84911367896
SN - 0197-3533
VL - 36
SP - 478
EP - 493
JO - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
JF - Basic and Applied Social Psychology
IS - 6
ER -