Recognition and context memory for faces from own and other ethnic groups: a remember-know investigation.
People are more accurate at recognizing faces from their own ethnic group than at recognizing faces from other ethnic groups. This other-ethnicity effect (OEE) in recognition may be produced by a deficit in recollective memory for other-ethnicity faces. In a single study, White and Black participants saw White and Black faces presented within several different visual contexts. The participants were then given an old/new recognition task. Old responses were followed by remember-know-guess judgments and context judgments. Own-ethnicity faces were recognized more accurately, were given more remember responses, and produced more accurate context judgments than did other-ethnicity faces. These results are discussed in a dual-process framework, and implications for eyewitness memory are considered.
Horry
Ruth
R
University of Sussex, Brighton, England. ruth.horry@rhul.ac.uk
Wright
Daniel B
DB
Tredoux
Colin G
CG
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005006:Ethnicity; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008568:Memory; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult