Cross-Racial Identification
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
- Vol. 15 (1) , 19-25
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167289151002
Abstract
This article reviews the research on differential recognition for own-versus other-race faces. A meta-analysis of 14 samples revealed that the magnitude of the own-race bias is similar for both Black and White subjects, accounting for about 10o of the variance in recognition accuracy. There is a considerable consistency across studies, indicating that memory for own-race faces is superior to memory for other-race faces. Both Black and White subjects exhibited own-race bias in 79%0 of the samples reviewed.Keywords
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