Disruptive effect of holistic bias on processing of other-race faces following face categorization.

Autor: Greenberg SN; Department of Psychology, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA. sgreenbe@carleton.edu, Macgregor-Hannah M
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Perceptual and motor skills [Percept Mot Skills] 2010 Apr; Vol. 110 (2), pp. 567-79.
DOI: 10.2466/PMS.110.2.567-579
Abstrakt: Prior work on own-race bias in visual face recognition has considered cognitive and social-cognitive explanations to account for the more efficient recognition of own-race faces as compared to faces of models from other races. One perceptual account with reasonable support suggests that the pattern reflects a cognitive tendency away from holistic processing of other-race faces. The present study engaged participants in an orientation task that provoked either global (holistic) or local (feature) processing prior to a face recognition task. Response latencies suggested that inducing a global processing bias slowed recognition of other-race faces relative to that of own-race faces, whereas inducing a local processing bias led to nearly equal face recognition times for both categories of faces. Furthermore, processing of other-race faces was slower with a global rather than a local processing bias. Results provide converging evidence that own-race faces and other-race faces differ in global analysis received.
Databáze: MEDLINE