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Distinctiveness is in the eye of the beholder: cross-racial differences in perceptions of faces
1Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina-Charlotte 28223, USA. LRVANWAL@UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU
Psychological Reports
|February 1, 1997
Abstract:
46 participants rated the distinctiveness of a series of 40 photographed faces of black and white targets. Average ratings of African-American male and female targets were higher for African-American raters than for white raters. Average ratings of Caucasian male and female targets were higher for Caucasian raters than for African-American raters. No significant effects of targets' sex or raters' sex were seen. Results are discussed in relation to cross-racial effects in face recognition by eyewitnesses.