AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CONTACT HYPOTHESIS OF THE OWN-RACE BIAS IN FACE RECOGNITION
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE CONTACT HYPOTHESIS OF THE OWN-RACE BIAS IN FACE RECOGNITION
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10.1080/14640749508401421
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1995-11-01
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VALENTINE, T
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CHIRORO, P;VALENTINE, T
虽然以前的研究已经证明，一个人的面孔识别自己的种族比其他种族的面孔更准确，这种效果的理论基础目前还没有明确的理解。本实验采用跨文化设计，检验了面孔识别中本族偏见的接触假说。研究人员对四组受试者进行了识别本族和其他种族面孔的测试：（1）与白色面孔有高度接触的非洲黑人;（2）与白色面孔很少或没有接触的非洲黑人;（3）与黑人面孔有高度接触的白色非洲人;（4）与黑人面孔几乎没有接触的白色英国人。结果表明，虽然在整体上被试识别本族面孔比他们识别其他种族的面孔更准确，更自信，在面孔识别的本族偏见是显着较小的高接触的主题比低接触的主题。此外，虽然高接触的黑人和白色科目显示显着的主效应的独特性，在他们的面孔识别的两个种族，低接触的黑人和白色科目显示显着的主效应的独特性，只有在他们的种族面孔识别。这些结果支持面孔识别中的本族偏见的接触假说和面孔编码的Valentine多维空间（MDS）框架。
Although previous studies have demonstrated that faces of one's own race are recognized more accurately than are faces of other races, the theoretical basis of this effect is not clearly understood at present. The experiment reported in this paper tested the contact hypothesis of the own-race bias in face recognition using a cross-cultural design. Four groups of subjects were tested for their recognition of distinctive and typical own-race and other-race faces: (1) black Africans who had a high degree of contact with white faces, (2) black Africans who had little or no contact with white faces, (3) white Africans who had a high degree of contact with black faces, and (4) white Britons who had little contact with black faces. The results showed that although on the whole subjects recognized own-race faces more accurately and more confidently than they recognized other-race faces, the own-race bias in face recognition was significantly smaller among the high-contact subjects than it was among the low-contact subjects. Also, although high-contact black and white subjects showed significant main effects of distinctiveness in their recognition of faces of both races, low-contact black and white subjects showed significant main effects of distinctiveness only in their recognition of own-race faces. It is argued that these results support the contact hypothesis of the own-race bias in face recognition and Valentine's multidimensional space (MDS) framework of face encoding.