The Role of Race in Korean Infants’ Face Recognition (인종 정보에 따른 한국 영아의 얼굴 인식 발달 )

김윤; Hyun Joo SONG (송현주)

The Role of Race in Korean Infants’ Face Recognition

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
2011, 24(3), pp.55-66
Publisher : The Korean Society For Developmental Psychology
Research Area : Social Science > Psychological Science

김윤 ¹, Hyun Joo SONG ¹

¹연세대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study investigated 6-, and 9-month-old infants’ discrimination of their own race or other race faces. The experiment consisted of six familiarization trials and two test trials. During familiarization, infants watched either a caucasian or an asian face. During test, infants watched two faces. One was the same face as the one in familiarization trials but the face was presented at a different angle than in familiarization trials. The other was a novel face of the same race as the counterpart. Infants’ mean looking times at the faces in each trial was measured. The results shows that both 6- and 9-month-old infants discriminated asian faces but not caucasian faces. Thus, the capacity to recognize other-race face disappeared whereas the capacity to recognize own-race face was retained. This study suggests that race-based selective recognition is present early in life. The results are discussed in relation to the influence of experience on face recognition.

KEYWORDS

social perception, cognitive tuning, other-race effect(ORE), face recognition

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.

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