The own-race bias in facial recognition : a study in multiracial Singapore

• Main Author: Goh, Annemarie
• Other Authors: Rebecca Nichols
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/141434
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The own-race bias (also known as the cross-race or other-race effect) is the phenomenon of recognising own-race faces more accurately than other-race faces, and it has been robustly demonstrated across populations, races, and ages. This has accounted for nearly half of eyewitness misidentifications...