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Balas, Benjamin; Westerlund, Alissa; Hung, Katherine; Nelson, Charles A., III – Developmental Science, 2011
The "other-race" effect describes the phenomenon in which faces are difficult to distinguish from one another if they belong to an ethnic or racial group to which the observer has had little exposure. Adult observers typically display multiple forms of recognition error for other-race faces, and infants exhibit behavioral evidence of a developing…
Descriptors: Race, Racial Factors, Infants, Visual Stimuli