TY  - JOUR
A1  - Suhrke, Janina
A1  - Freitag, Claudia
A1  - Lamm, Bettina
A1  - Teiser, Johanna
A1  - Fassbender, Ina
A1  - Poloczek, Sonja
A1  - Teubert, Manuel
A1  - Vöhringer, Isabel A.
A1  - Keller, Heidi
A1  - Knopf, Monika
A1  - Lohaus, Arnold
A1  - Schwarzer, Gudrun
T1  - The other-race effect in 3-year-old German and Cameroonian children
T2  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - Recognizing individual faces is an important human ability that highly depends on experience. This is reflected in the so called other-race effect; adults are better at recognizing faces from their own ethnic group, while very young infants do not show this specialization yet. Two experiments examined whether 3-year-old children from two different cultural backgrounds show the other-race effect. In Experiment 1, German children (N = 41) were presented with a forced choice paradigm where they were asked to recognize female Caucasian or African faces. In Experiment 2, 3-year-olds from Cameroon (N = 66) participated in a similar task using the same stimulus material. In both cultures the other-race effect was present; children were better at recognizing individual faces from their own ethnic group. In addition, German children performed at a higher overall level of accuracy than Cameroonians. The results are discussed in relation to cultural aspects in particular.
KW  - Cameroon
KW  - Germany
KW  - children
KW  - face recognition
KW  - other-race effect
Y1  - 2014
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/33399
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-333997
SN  - 1664-1078
N1  - Copyright © 2014 Suhrke, Freitag, Lamm, Teiser, Fassbender, Poloczek, Teubert, Vöhringer, Keller, Knopf, Lohaus and Schwarzer. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
VL  - 5
IS  - Article 198
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -