University of York, UK.
Perception. 2021 Jun;50(6):524-539. doi: 10.1177/03010066211014016. Epub 2021 May 13.
One of the best-known phenomena in face recognition is the other-race effect, the observation that own-race faces are better remembered than other-race faces. However, previous studies have not put the magnitude of other-race effect in the context of other influences on face recognition. Here, we compared the effects of (a) a race manipulation (own-race/other-race face) and (b) a familiarity manipulation (familiar/unfamiliar face) in a 2 × 2 factorial design. We found that the familiarity effect was several times larger than the race effect in all performance measures. However, participants expected race to have a larger effect on others than it actually did. Face recognition accuracy depends much more on whether you know the person's face than whether you share the same race.
人脸识别中最著名的现象之一是异族效应，即观察到同种族的面孔比异族面孔更容易被记住。然而，以前的研究并没有将异族效应的大小放在对人脸识别有其他影响的背景下考虑。在这里，我们在 2×2 因子设计中比较了（a）种族操纵（本族/异族面孔）和（b）熟悉度操纵（熟悉/不熟悉面孔）的影响。我们发现，在所有表现测量中，熟悉度效应都比种族效应大几个数量级。然而，参与者预期种族对他人的影响会比实际情况更大。面部识别的准确性在很大程度上取决于你是否认识这个人的脸，而不是你是否与他同种族。
