Depth of Processing in Response to Own- and Other-Race Faces
- 1 September 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 7 (3) , 475-480
- https://doi.org/10.1177/014616728173017
Abstract
Three groups of Caucasian subjects viewed a series of portraits of white, black, and Japanese persons, respectively. They were asked to write their first thought or response to each picture. A scale was developed to score for "depth of processing" reflected in their responses. White portraits elicited deeper processing responses than did black or Japanese portraits. Expectation of a subsequent recognition memory test affected processing of Japanese portraits. The findings suggest a possible explanation of the difficulty white subjects experience when asked to recognize other-race faces.Keywords
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