The Development of White-Asian Categorization: Contributions from Skin Color and Other Physiognomic Cues
The Development of White-Asian Categorization: Contributions from Skin Color and Other Physiognomic Cues
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0158211
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发表时间：
2016-06-29
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Stepanova, Elena V.
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作者：
Dunham, Yarrow;Dotsch, Ron;Stepanova, Elena V.
我们研究了发展的种族分类的面孔跨越欧洲-东亚（“白亚洲”）的分类连续体的儿童年龄在4岁和9岁之间，以及成人。我们采用了一个刺激集，独立地改变肤色和其他方面的面部容貌，允许各自的贡献进行评估独立和相互作用。结果表明，在这一年龄范围内的儿童的能力，以借鉴这两种线索的实质性发展，超过两倍的差异解释成人的刺激变化比儿童。尽管如此，孩子们显然对肤色和其他方面的面部容貌都很敏感，这表明对白人-亚洲人类别边界的理解与对白人-黑人类别边界的理解有所不同，后者对肤色以外的特征的注意力出现得稍晚。讨论的重点是这些研究结果的社会分类理论的影响。
We examined the development of racial categorizations of faces spanning the European-East Asian ("White-Asian") categorical continuum in children between the ages of four and nine as well as adults. We employed a stimulus set that independently varied skin color and other aspects of facial physiognomy, allowing the contribution of each to be assessed independently and in interaction with each other. Results demonstrated substantial development across this age range in children's ability to draw on both sorts of cue, with over twice as much variance explained by stimulus variation in adults than children. Nonetheless, children were clearly sensitive to both skin color and other aspects of facial physiognomy, suggesting that understanding of the White-Asian category boundary develops in a somewhat different way than understanding of the White-Black category boundary, in which attention to features other than skin color appear only somewhat later. Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for theories of social categorization.