The Role of Skin Colour in Face Recognition

Author:

Bar-Haim Yair,Saidel Talia1,Yovel Galit

Affiliation:

1. The Adler Center for Research in Child Development and Psychopathology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel

Abstract

People have better memory for faces from their own racial group than for faces from other races. It has been suggested that this own-race recognition advantage depends on an initial categorisation of faces into own and other race based on racial markers, resulting in poorer encoding of individual variations in other-race faces. Here, we used a study–test recognition task with stimuli in which the skin colour of African and Caucasian faces was manipulated to produce four categories representing the cross-section between skin colour and facial features. We show that, despite the notion that skin colour plays a major role in categorising faces into own and other-race faces, its effect on face recognition is minor relative to differences across races in facial features.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Artificial Intelligence,Sensory Systems,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology,Ophthalmology

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