Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces
Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.0434a.x
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发表时间：
2005-11-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Pascalis, O
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作者：
Kelly, DJ;Quinn, PC;Pascalis, O
成年人对界定种族的生理差异很敏感。然而，我们对种族差异变得敏感的年龄目前尚不清楚。我们的研究旨在通过使用视觉偏好（VP）范式测试新生儿和幼儿对种族的敏感性来澄清这一点。新生儿没有表现出对本族或其他民族面孔的自发偏好，而3个月大的婴儿则表现出对本族面孔的明显偏好。这些结果表明，基于种族差异的优先选择在生命的最初几天并不存在，而是在生命的前3个月内学会的。研究结果表明，成年人对种族差异的认知是后天习得的，并来自于在早期发展过程中接触本种族和其他种族面孔的差异。
Adults are sensitive to the physical differences that define ethnic groups. However, the age at which we become sensitive to ethnic differences is currently unclear Our study aimed to clarify this by testing newborns and young infants for sensitivity to ethnicity using a visual preference (VP) paradigm. While newborn infants demonstrated no spontaneous preference for faces from either their own- or other-ethnic groups, 3-month-old infants demonstrated a significant preference for faces from their own-ethnic group. These results suggest that preferential selectivity based on ethnic differences is not present in the first days of life, but is learned within the first 3 months of life. The findings imply that adults' perceptions of ethnic differences are learned and derived from differences in exposure to own- versus other-race faces during early development.