Do individual differences in face recognition ability moderate the other ethnicity effect?

• Main Authors: Childs, Michael Jeanne, Jones, Alex, Thwaites, Peter, Zdravković, Sunčica, Thorley, Craig, Suzuki, Atsunobu, Shen, Rachel, Ding, Qi, Burns, Edwin, Xu, Hong, Tree, Jeremy J.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Face Memory; Developmental Prosopagnosia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/161546
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Individuals are better at recognizing faces from their own ethnic group compared with other ethnicity faces-the other-ethnicity effect (OEE). This finding is said to reflect differences in experience and familiarity to faces from other ethnicities relative to faces corresponding with the viewers...