The role of experience during childhood in shaping the other-race effect

Heering, Adélaïde de; Liedekerke, Claire De; Deboni, Malorie; Rossion, Bruno

doi:10.1167/9.8.475

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“…One study has specifically investigated the contact hypothesis during childhood. Asian children, adopted by Caucasian families when they were infants or toddlers (between 2 and 26 months of age), showed a comparable recognition for both Asian and Caucasian faces (De Heering, De Liedekerke, Deboni, & Rossion, ). These results support explanations of the ORE based on perceptual expertise and interracial contact.…”

Section: The Developmental Pathways Of the Ore And Of The Ccpmentioning

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Race and Color: Two Sides of One Story? Development of Biases in Categorical Perception

2016

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Categorical perception is a phenomenon that leads people to group stimuli into categories instead of perceiving their natural continua. This article reviews the literature of two biases connected with categorical perception: categorical color perception and the other‐race effect. Although these two phenomena concern distant targets (colors and faces) and imply different biases (one attentional, one mnemonic), they share at least three commonalities. First, they both involve the chunking of continuous dimensions into categories. Second, adult categories are shaped by cultural processes. Third, infants' discrimination performance seems universal and guided by perception. In this article, it is proposed to look for a common developmental mechanism that clarifies the shift from a perceptual to a sociocognitive knowledge of the environment. New perspectives are discussed.

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Section: The Developmental Pathways Of the Ore And Of The Ccpmentioning

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Race and Color: Two Sides of One Story? Development of Biases in Categorical Perception

2016

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“…There is also evidence that interracial contact can influence the own race bias from real life situations. Studies have reported that Asian children who have been adopted by Caucasian families in Western Europe, show no own race bias ( de Herring Liedekerke, Deboni & Rossion, 2010) and in some circumstances the own race bias was even reversed (Sangrigoli, Pallier, Argenti, Ventureyra & de Schonen, 2005).…”

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The own-race bias in child and adolescent witnesses

Havard

Memon

Humphries

2017

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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The present study investigated the own-race bias in British school children using an eyewitness paradigm. 319 9 10 participants viewed films of two similar staged thefts, one that depicted a Caucasian culprit and the other an 11 12 13Asian culprit and then after a delay of 2-3 days, viewed a lineup for each culprit. 176 of the participants were 14 15Caucasian and 143 were Asian. There were also two age groups, 164 were aged 7-9 years and 152 were 12-14 16 17years. There was a significant own race bias for the Caucasian participants from both age groups, that resulted participants had high levels of contact with Caucasians.

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“…For example, Korean children adopted by an other‐race family (and thus who live in a homogenous outgroup environment) appear to exhibit a reversal in the typical ORE in adulthood (Sangrigoli, Pallier, Argenti, Ventureyra & de Schonen, 2005). These results may depend on the amount of exposure children have to outgroup faces in childhood, however (de Heering, de Liedekerke, Deboni & Rossion, 2010). Similarly, Black children’s ORE is reduced for those attending an integrated school, and in some cases reversed for those also living in a primarily outgroup neighborhood (Feinman & Entwisle, 1976).…”

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Biracial and monoracial infant own‐race face perception: an eye tracking study

Gaither

Pauker

Johnson

2012

Developmental Science

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We know early experience plays a crucial role in the development of face processing, but we know little about how infants learn to distinguish faces from different races, especially for non-Caucasian populations. Moreover, it is unknown whether differential processing of different race faces observed in typically-studied monoracial infants extends to biracial infants as well. Thus, we investigated 3-month-old Caucasian, Asian and biracial (Caucasian-Asian) infants’ ability to distinguish Caucasian and Asian faces. Infants completed two within-subject, infant-controlled habituation sequences and test trials as an eye tracker recorded looking times and scanning patterns. Examination of individual differences revealed significant positive correlations between own-race novelty preference and scanning frequency between eye and mouth regions of own-race habituation stimuli for Caucasian and Asian infants, suggesting that facility in own-race face discrimination stems from active inspection of internal facial features in these groups. Biracial infants, however, showed the opposite effect: An “own-race” novelty preference was associated with reduced scanning between eye and mouth regions of “own-race” habituation stimuli, suggesting that biracial infants use a distinct approach to processing frequently encountered faces. Future directions for investigating face processing development in biracial populations are discussed.

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The role of experience during childhood in shaping the other-race effect

Cited by 36 publications

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Race and Color: Two Sides of One Story? Development of Biases in Categorical Perception

Race and Color: Two Sides of One Story? Development of Biases in Categorical Perception

The own-race bias in child and adolescent witnesses

Biracial and monoracial infant own‐race face perception: an eye tracking study

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