title: Nature and nurture in own-race face processing.
abstract: A standard visual preference task was used to examine 3-month-olds' looking times at own-race versus other-race faces as a function of environmental exposure to faces from the two categories. Participants were Caucasian infants living in a Caucasian environment, African infants living in an African environment, and African infants living in a predominantly Caucasian environment. The results indicate that preference for own-race faces is present as early as 3 months of age, but that this preference results from exposure to the prototypical facial environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. yair1@post.tau.ac.il
authors.forename: Yair
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bar-Haim
authors.forename: Talee
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ziv
authors.forename: Dominique
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lamy
authors.forename: Richard M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Hodes
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D005006:Ethnicity; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012931:Social Environment; D014796:Visual Perception