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- Title
Why the other‐race effect matters: Poor recognition of other‐race faces impacts everyday social interactions.
- Authors
McKone, Elinor; Dawel, Amy; Robbins, Rachel A.; Shou, Yiyun; Chen, Nan; Crookes, Kate
- Abstract
What happens to everyday social interactions when other‐race recognition fails? Here, we provide the first formal investigation of this question. We gave East Asian international students (N = 89) a questionnaire concerning their experiences of the other‐race effect (ORE) in Australia, and a laboratory test of their objective other‐race face recognition deficit using the Cambridge Face Memory Test (CFMT). As a 'perpetrator' of the ORE, participants reported that their problems telling apart Caucasian people contributed significantly to difficulties socializing with them. Moreover, the severity of this problem correlated with their ORE on the CFMT. As a 'victim' of the ORE, participants reported that Caucasians' problems telling them apart also contributed to difficulties socializing. Further, 81% of participants had been confused with other Asians by a Caucasian authority figure (e.g., university tutor, workplace boss), resulting in varying levels of upset/difficulty. When compared to previously established contributors to international students' high rates of social isolation, ORE‐related problems were perceived as equally important as the language barrier and only moderately less important than cultural differences. We conclude that the real‐world impact of the ORE extends beyond previously identified specialized settings (eyewitness testimony, security), to common everyday situations experienced by all humans.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; FRIENDSHIP; FACE perception; EXPERIENCE; CRONBACH'S alpha; T-test (Statistics); SOCIAL isolation; STUDENTS; RESEARCH funding; QUESTIONNAIRES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; RACE relations; EAST Asians; ODDS ratio; WHITE people
- Publication
British Journal of Psychology, 2023, Vol 114, p230
- ISSN
0007-1269
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjop.12508