Bilingualism shapes the other race effect

• Main Authors: Burns, Edwin James, Tree, Jeremy, Chan, Alice Hiu Dan, Xu, Hong
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Own Race Bias; Eyewitness
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145105
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

It has recently been suggested that the other race effect (ORE), whereby own race faces are recognised better than those of other races, can be abolished by bilingualism.Bilingualism, however, is not a categorical variable but can vary dramatically in proficiency across the two languages. We therefo...