Distinctiveness is in the eye of the beholder: cross-racial differences in perceptions of faces.
46 participants rated the distinctiveness of a series of 40 photographed faces of black and white targets. Average ratings of African-American male and female targets were higher for African-American raters than for white raters. Average ratings of Caucasian male and female targets were higher for Caucasian raters than for African-American raters. No significant effects of targets' sex or raters' sex were seen. Results are discussed in relation to cross-racial effects in face recognition by eyewitnesses.
Van Wallendael
L R
LR
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte 28223, USA. LRVANWAL@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Kuhn
J C
JC
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*