Racial categorization of faces: The ambiguous race face effect.

By O. MacLin, R. Malpass. 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Social Categorization and the Perception of Social Groups (2012, background): “, Eberhardt, Davies, Purdie-Vaughns, & Johnson, 2006; Maddox, 2004). However, what happens when a target does not appear to be a clear match to any established category? How do perceivers deal with ambiguous social targets? As noted above, people often automatically categorize others based on their ”
Shades of Race (2016, background): “One experimental study showed that ambiguous faces with curly hair were more often classified as Hispanic than Black (MacLin & Malpass, 2001).”
On Construing Others: Category and Stereotype Activation from Facial Cues (2006, background): “In general, perceivers appear to assess race using face shape (Enlow et al., 1982), skin tone, and hairstyle cues (Byatt & Rhodes, 1998; Levin, 2000; Maclin & Malpass, 2001; Maddox, 2004).”
Intergroup Perception and Cognition: An Integrative Framework for Understanding the Causes and Consequences of Social Categorization (2017, background): “…in category decisions about others; for example, targets with darker skin tone and more Afrocentric facial features are more likely to be categorized as Black (Dunham, Stepanova, Dotsch, & Todorov, 2015; Krosch & Amodio, 2014; MacLin & Malpass, 2001, 2003; Stepanova & Strube, 2009, 2012a, 2012b).”
The Influence of Race on Eyewitness Memory (2007, background): “of individuation—a notion quite related to that of “social utility” put forth by Malpass (1990). As a result, Levin pointed out that a categorization response should only oper-”
Social Categorization and Stereotyping In vivo: The VUCA Challenge (2009, background): “MacLin and Malpass (2001) examined categorizations of faces that were ambiguous as to whether they were African American or Hispanic.”
Natural ambiguities: Racial categorization of multiracial individuals (2012, background): “Indeed, several papers refer specifically to the “ambiguity” of multiracial faces (e.g., Corneille, Huart, Becquart, & Bredart, 2004; Eberhardt, Dasgupta, & Banaszynski, 2003; MacLin & Malpass, 2001; Pauker et al., 2009; Willadsen-Jensen & Ito, 2006, 2008).”
Memory for own- and other-race faces: A dual-process approach (2005, methodology): “First, some researchers have suggested that individuals may generate a categorization response when presented with other-race faces (Levin, 1996, 2000; MacLin & Malpass, 2001, 2003; Sporer, 2001).”
Categorization and individuation in the cross-race recognition deficit : Toward a solution to an insidious problem (2007, result): “For example, Ng and Lindsay (1994) easily replicated the typical CRE with White and Asian participants, however, across two studies they found no relationship between the magnitude of the CRE and self-reported contact with members of the relevant racial out-group.”
Brief exposures: Male sexual orientation is accurately perceived at 50 ms (2008, background): “Given that homosexuals are often considered simply as gender incongruent (e.g., Johnson, Gill, Reichman, & Tassinary, 2007), differences in hairstyle might be influencing perceptions of the internal features of the targets’ faces (see Maclin & Malpass, 2001 ).”