Psychological Science 2006

Nature and Nurture in Own-Race Face Processing

Yair Bar‐Haim¹; Talee Ziv¹; Dominique Lamy¹; Richard M. Hodes²

¹ Tel Aviv University · ² American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

Abstract

A standard visual preference task was used to examine 3-month-olds' looking times at own-race versus other-race faces as a function of environmental exposure to faces from the two categories. Participants were Caucasian infants living in a Caucasian environment, African infants living in an African environment, and African infants living in a predominantly Caucasian environment. The results indicate that preference for own-race faces is present as early as 3 months of age, but that this preference results from exposure to the prototypical facial environment.

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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01679.x

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