TY - JOUR
T1 - Interracial contexts debilitate same-race face recognition
AU - Young, Steven G.
AU - Hugenberg, Kurt
AU - Bernstein, Micheal J.
AU - Sacco, Donald F.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by a National Science Foundation Grant BCS-0642525 awarded to the second author.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - Social cognitive research has documented the integral role of social categories (e.g., race) in face processing. Activating a social category can lead perception and memory of faces to be biased in a category-consistent direction. The current research extends this past work, to test the hypothesis that making a social category salient can reduce subsequent face recognition. In two experiments, the current research finds that the typically superior same-race recognition is debilitated by making the same-race category salient. We find that when White-Americans self-categorize as 'White,' subsequent perceptual and memorial biases reduce the typically strong same-race recognition.
AB - Social cognitive research has documented the integral role of social categories (e.g., race) in face processing. Activating a social category can lead perception and memory of faces to be biased in a category-consistent direction. The current research extends this past work, to test the hypothesis that making a social category salient can reduce subsequent face recognition. In two experiments, the current research finds that the typically superior same-race recognition is debilitated by making the same-race category salient. We find that when White-Americans self-categorize as 'White,' subsequent perceptual and memorial biases reduce the typically strong same-race recognition.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.009
DO - 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.05.009
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:68049105100
VL - 45
SP - 1123
EP - 1126
JO - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
JF - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
SN - 0022-1031
IS - 5
ER -