Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces.

By D. Kelly, Paul C. Quinn, A. Slater, Kang Lee, Alan Gibson, Michael Smith, Liezhong Ge, O. Pascalis. Developmental Science, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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The Development of the Uncanny Valley in Infants (2011, background): “…the faces of other races (Chiroro & Valentine, 1995)—have found that young infants can discriminate the faces of different races but that older infants only discriminate the faces of their own race (Kelly et al., 2005; Kelly et al., 2007; Kelly et al., 2009; Sangrigoli & de Schonen, 2004).”
Perceptual learning: 12-month-olds' discrimination of monkey faces. (2012, background): “…. . . [and] 9-month-old infants and adults show a marked advantage for recognizing only human faces’’ (Pascalis et al., 2002, p. 1321; emphasis added); ‘‘. . . the ability to individuate monkey faces is absent in 9- month-old infants and in adults’’ (Kelly et al., 2005, p. 1085; emphasis added).”
Development of the other-race effect during infancy: Evidence toward universality? (2009, background): “Visual preference studies have indirectly shown that 3-month-olds categorically differentiate faces according to gender (Quinn, Yahr, Kuhn, Slater, & Pascalis, 2002) and ethnicity (Bar-Haim et al., 2006; Kelly et al., 2005, 2007a).”
Brief daily exposures to Asian females reverses perceptual narrowing for Asian faces in Caucasian infants (2012, positive): “…by infants’ preferences for the familiar classes of stimuli (e.g., own-race faces, native speech sounds) (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, & Hodes, 2006; Kelly et al., 2005; Moon, Cooper, & Fifer, 1993)—preferences that are likely adaptive in guiding the perceptual narrowing process for tuning into…”
The decline of cross-species intersensory perception in human infants: underlying mechanisms and its developmental persistence. (2008, background): “Studies of infant response to the faces from other races have shown that infants younger than three months of age can discriminate same-race faces as well as other-race faces but that older infants only discriminate same-race faces (Kelly et al., 2007, 2005; Sangrigoli and de Schonen, 2004).”
Experience-Based and On-Line Categorization of Objects in Early Infancy (2010, background): “More generally, these findings suggest that infants’ experiences outside the laboratory can affect their categorical responding in the laboratory (Bar-Haim, Ziv, Lamy, & Hodes, 2006; Kelly et al., 2005, 2007).”
The Other-Race Effect Develops During Infancy (2007, background): “We (Kelly et al., 2005) have shown that this preference is not present at birth, which strongly suggests that own-group preferences result from differential exposure to faces from one's particular ethnic group.”
Race as a Bundle of Sticks: Designs that Estimate Effects of Seemingly Immutable Characteristics (2016, background): “Newborn infants, for example, exhibit no preference for faces from their own racial or ethnic groups but three-month-old infants do demonstrate such ingroup preferences (Kelly et al. 2005).”