title: Cross-Race Preferences for Same-Race Faces Extend Beyond the African Versus Caucasian Contrast in 3-Month-Old Infants.
abstract: A visual preference procedure was used to examine preferences among faces of different ethnicities (African, Asian, Caucasian, and Middle Eastern) in Chinese 3-month-old infants exposed only to Chinese faces. The infants demonstrated a preference for faces from their own ethnic group. Alongside previous results showing that Caucasian infants exposed only to Caucasian faces prefer same-race faces (Kelly et al., 2005) and that Caucasian and African infants exposed only to native faces prefer the same over the other-race faces (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, & Hodes, 2006), the findings reported here (a) extend the same-race preference observed in young infants to a new race of infants (Chinese), and (b) show that cross-race preferences for same-race faces extend beyond the perceptually robust contrast between African and Caucasian faces.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, England.
authors.forename: David J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kelly
authors.forename: Shaoying
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Liezhong
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ge
authors.forename: Paul C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Quinn
authors.forename: Alan M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Slater
authors.forename: Kang
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Qinyao
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pascalis