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Thirty years of investigating the own-race bias in memory for faces: a meta-analytic review

Meissner, Christian A., Brigham, John C.·2001·Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
DOI 10.1037/1076-8971.7.1.3
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The current article reviews the own-race bias (ORB) phenomenon in memory for human faces, the finding that own-race faces are better remembered when compared with memory for faces of another, less familiar race. Data were analyzed from 39 research articles, involving 91 independent samples and nearly 5,000 participants. Measures of hit and false alarm rates, and aggregate measures of discrimination accuracy and response criterion were examined, including an analysis of 8 study moderators. Several theoretical relationships were also assessed (i.e., the influence of racial attitudes and interracial contact). Overall, results indicated a "mirror effect" pattern in which own-race faces yielded a higher proportion of hits and a lower proportion of false alarms compared with other-race faces. Consistent with this effect, a significant ORB was also found in aggregate measures of discrimination accuracy and response criterion. The influence of perceptual learning and differen-tiation processes in the ORB are discussed, in addition to the practical implications of this phenomenon. She based her identification on Smith's eyes, which she said were greenish-blue

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  • An own-race bias is present in both face recognition and matching tasks.

    “evidence has shown that an own-race bias is present in both face recognition (Meissner & Brigham, 2001) and matching tasks (Megreya, White & Burton, 2011; Meissner, Susa & Ross, 2013)”

    From Unfamiliar face matching with photographs of infants and children (2018) · cites this paper as Meissner & Brigham, 2001

  • Most individuals show poorer performance when asked to identify faces of a different ethnicity than their own.

    “It is well established that most individuals show poorer performance when asked to identify faces of a different ethnicity than their own”

    From Enhanced Matching of Children’s Faces in “Super-Recognisers” But Not High-Contact Controls (2020) · cites this paper as Meissner & Brigham, 2001

  • The tendency for poorer performance on other-ethnicity faces can be reduced with exposure to faces of that ethnicity.

    “and that this tendency can be reduced with exposure to faces of that ethnicity (Meissner & Brigham, 2001).”

    From Enhanced Matching of Children’s Faces in “Super-Recognisers” But Not High-Contact Controls (2020) · cites this paper as Meissner & Brigham, 2001

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Authors
Meissner, C. A., & Brigham, J. C.
ORCID
Meissner, Christian A.
Venue
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2001-03
Volume
7
Issue
1
Pages
3-35
ISSN
  • 1939-1528
  • 1076-8971
DOI
10.1037/1076-8971.7.1.3
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