Face similarity and the other -race effect in face perception

• Main Author: Yamashita, Jill A
• Format: Dissertation
• Language: English
• Published: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses 01.01.2003
• Subjects: Cognitive psychology; Cognitive therapy; Experimental psychology; Experiments; Psychology

The other-race-effect (ORE) is when a person has more difficulty recognizing or perceiving someone from a different race. The ORE presumably occurs because we have less frequent exposure to other-race faces, because we experience a non-uniform distribution of faces with most faces clustered around t...