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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • The other-race effect (ORE) demonstrates differential performance in recognizing faces of different races, with better accuracy for own-race faces.
  • Existing research suggests OREs may stem from variations in holistic, configural, or featural face processing, but the underlying mechanisms remain debated.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether different observed other-race effects (OREs) in face recognition tasks are underpinned by shared or distinct cognitive mechanisms.
  • To examine the interrelationships between OREs in face memory, holistic processing, configural processing, and featural processing.
  • To assess the influence of intergroup contact on these OREs.

Main Methods:

  • Participants completed tasks assessing face recognition, holistic processing, configural information processing, and featural information processing for both own- and other-race faces.
  • The magnitude of OREs was calculated for each task.
  • Intergroup contact with other-race individuals was quantified using a questionnaire.

Main Results:

  • Significant OREs were observed in face memory and configural information processing tasks.
  • No significant OREs were found in tasks measuring holistic or featural processing.
  • Crucially, no significant correlations were found between the OREs across the different tasks.
  • Other-race contact significantly predicted OREs in face memory and configural processing tasks only.

Conclusions:

  • The findings suggest that different OREs arise from distinct underlying processes rather than a unified mechanism.
  • The results challenge the notion that the ORE in face recognition is solely attributable to cross-race differences in holistic processing.
  • Intergroup contact plays a role in modulating specific OREs, particularly those related to face memory and configural analysis.