Effects of baby schema and mere exposure on explicit and implicit face processing

• Main Authors: Venturoso, Leonardo, Gabrieli, Giulio, Truzzi, Anna, Azhari, Atiqah, Setoh, Peipei, Bornstein, Marc H., Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Baby Schema; Face Processing
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143263; https://doi.org/10.21979/N9/TGTTTR
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In an increasingly multicultural society, the way people perceive individuals from the same vs different ethnic groups greatly affects their own and societal well-being. Two psychological effects that influence these perceptions are the Mere-Exposure Effect (MRE), wherein familiarity with certain ob...