Does Perceived Race Affect Discrimination and Recognition of Ambiguous-Race Faces? A Test of the Sociocognitive Hypothesis

Autor/inn/en	Rhodes, Gillian; Lie, Hanne C.; Ewing, Louise; Evangelista, Emma; Tanaka, James W.
Titel	Does Perceived Race Affect Discrimination and Recognition of Ambiguous-Race Faces? A Test of the Sociocognitive Hypothesis
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36 (2010) 1, S.217-223 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0278-7393
DOI	10.1037/a0017680
Schlagwörter	Memory; Recall (Psychology); Whites; Asians; Racial Factors; Race; Visual Discrimination; Visual Perception; Social Influences; Cognitive Processes; Hypothesis Testing; Visual Stimuli; Foreign Countries; College Students; Experimental Psychology; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gedächtnis; Abberufung; White; Weißer; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Rasse; Abstammung; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Sozialer Einfluss; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Ausland; Collegestudent; Experimentelle Psychologie; Australien
Abstract	Discrimination and recognition are often poorer for other-race than own-race faces. These other-race effects (OREs) have traditionally been attributed to reduced perceptual expertise, resulting from more limited experience, with other-race faces. However, recent findings suggest that sociocognitive factors, such as reduced motivation to individuate other-race faces, may also contribute. If the sociocognitive hypothesis is correct, then it should be possible to alter discrimination and memory performance for identical faces by altering their perceived race. We made identical ambiguous-race morphed faces look either Asian or Caucasian by presenting them in Caucasian or Asian face contexts, respectively. However, this perceived-race manipulation had no effect on either discrimination (Experiment 1) or memory (Experiment 2) for the ambiguous-race faces, despite the presence of the usual OREs in discrimination and recognition of unambiguous Asian and Caucasian faces in our participant population. These results provide no support for the sociocognitive hypothesis. (Contains 5 footnotes and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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