Infants demonstrate an other-race effect. This is when people show facial recognition errors when a target face is from an unfamiliar racial group, rather than their own racial group. This is known as the other-race effect (Meissner & Brigham, 2001).
The question is: is the other race effect present from birth or does it develop based on experience? It has been demonstrated that selectivity based on ethnic facial differences emerges very early in life. However, researchers have shown that this preference is not present at birth, which strongly suggests that preferences result from different exposure to faces from one’s own ethnic group.
Kelly and colleagues (2007) investigated the age at which the other-race effect emerges in
The question is: is the other race effect present from birth or does it develop based on experience? It has been demonstrated that selectivity based on ethnic facial differences emerges very early in life. However, researchers have shown that this preference is not present at birth, which strongly suggests that preferences result from different exposure to faces from one’s own ethnic group.
Kelly and colleagues (2007) investigated the age at which the other-race effect emerges in