Nature and Nurture in Own-Race Face Processing
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- 1 February 2006
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Science
- Vol. 17 (2) , 159-163
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01679.x
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.Keywords
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