TY - JOUR
T1 - Nature and nurture in own-race face processing
AU - Bar-Haim, Yair
AU - Ziv, Talee
AU - Lamy, Dominique
AU - Hodes, Richard M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was partially supported by The Israeli Science Foundation (Grant No. 989/03).
PY - 2006/2
Y1 - 2006/2
N2 - A standard visual preference task was used to examine 3-month-olds' looking times at own-race versus other-race faces as a function of environmental exposure to faces from the two categories. Participants were Caucasian infants living in a Caucasian environment, African infants living in an African environment, and African infants living in a predominantly Caucasian environment. The results indicate that preference for own-race faces is present as early as 3 months of age, but that this preference results from exposure to the prototypical facial environment.
AB - A standard visual preference task was used to examine 3-month-olds' looking times at own-race versus other-race faces as a function of environmental exposure to faces from the two categories. Participants were Caucasian infants living in a Caucasian environment, African infants living in an African environment, and African infants living in a predominantly Caucasian environment. The results indicate that preference for own-race faces is present as early as 3 months of age, but that this preference results from exposure to the prototypical facial environment.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01679.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01679.x
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AN - SCOPUS:33645065365
SN - 0956-7976
VL - 17
SP - 159
EP - 163
JO - Psychological Science
JF - Psychological Science
IS - 2
ER -