Visual Examination of Own- and Other-race Face Identities And Implicit Racial Bias

The current paper used eye tracking to examine the influence of implicit racial bias on the visual examination and recognition of own- and other-race face identities. Implicit bias favoring the own-race group was not associated with differences in the amount of time spent looking at the internal features (i.e., right eye, left eye, nose, mouth) of other-race faces during an old/new identity recognition task. However, larger implicit biases favoring the own-race group was associated with longer total dwell times towards the internal features of own-race faces during the test phase of the identity recognition task. Regardless of implicit bias, adults generally showed an own-race advantage in their face recognition.