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Cross-Race Preferences for Same-Race Faces Extend Beyond the African Versus Caucasian Contrast in 3-Month-Old Infants

Kelly, David J., Liu, S., Ge, L., Quinn, P. C., Slater, A. M., Lee, K., Liu, Q., Pascalis, O. (2007) Cross-Race Preferences for Same-Race Faces Extend Beyond the African Versus Caucasian Contrast in 3-Month-Old Infants. Infancy, 11 (1). pp. 87-95. ISSN 1525-0008. (doi:10.1080/15250000709336871) (KAR id:70889)

Abstract

A visual preference procedure was used to examine preferences among faces of

different races and ethnicities (African, Asian, Caucasian, and Middle Eastern) in

Chinese 3-month-old infants exposed only to Chinese faces. The infants demonstrated

a preference for faces from their own ethnic group. Alongside previous

results showing that Caucasian infants exposed only to Caucasian faces prefer

same-race faces (Kelly et al., 2005) and that Caucasian and African infants exposed

only to native faces prefer the same over the other-race faces (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, &

Hodes, 2006), the findings reported here (a) extend the same-race preference

observed in young infants to a new race of infants (Chinese), and (b) show that

cross-race preferences for same-race faces extend beyond the perceptually robust

contrast between African and Caucasian faces.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/15250000709336871
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: David Kelly
Date Deposited: 10 Dec 2018 12:55 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:25 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/70889 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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