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  • Forensic Science

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  • Cross-race face identification presents significant challenges.
  • Existing tests lack standardized difficulty and control for response bias.
  • No publicly available tests assess own-race versus other-race face identification abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce the Cross-Race Face Identity Triad (CR-FIT) test.
  • Provide a challenging and unbiased measure of face identity matching.
  • Quantify the own-race advantage in face identification.

Main Methods:

  • Developed the CR-FIT test using face-image triads to eliminate response bias.
  • Employed machine and human pre-screening to ensure stimulus comparability across African American (AA) and Caucasian (CA) faces.
  • Validated item difficulty using algorithm performance and AA/CA observer data.

Main Results:

  • The CR-FIT test demonstrated a classic other-race effect: participants identified own-race faces more accurately than other-race faces.
  • No significant effect of item race on performance was observed.
  • Untrained participants performed above chance but below ceiling, indicating test suitability for diverse ability levels.

Conclusions:

  • The CR-FIT test offers a robust and accessible tool for studying cross-race face identification.
  • Findings confirm and quantify the other-race effect in face identity matching.
  • The test is available on an open science platform for research use.