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How does typicality influence memory : exploring the effects of shifting attention to distinctive face features on own-race bias
| Resumo: | The own-race bias is a robust effect where participants show better memory for faces of their race. Hills and Lewis (2011) found that shifting attention to distinctive black face features reduces the bias for white participants. Nevertheless, social categories such as race are graded and their members can vary on their representativeness of the category (E. Rosch & Mervis, 1975). Tanaka and Corneille (2007) showed atypical faces are more easily recognised than typical faces and Kleider-Offutt et al. (2017) demonstrated that prototypicality can affect the activation of category association. Our hypothesis states that the more typical a face is, the less efficient the attentional shift is in reducing the own-race bias. Our results replicated the own-race bias (ORB), but we could not replicate Hills and Lewis’s (2011) results. We also did not confirm our hypothesis, since the only effect on typicality was a higher recogni tion for atypical faces of both racial groups. |
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| Autores principais: | Carvalho, Marco António Ferreira da Mota |
| Assunto: | ORB Memória Penetração cognitiva Teses de mestrado - 2022 |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
| Resumo: | The own-race bias is a robust effect where participants show better memory for faces of their race. Hills and Lewis (2011) found that shifting attention to distinctive black face features reduces the bias for white participants. Nevertheless, social categories such as race are graded and their members can vary on their representativeness of the category (E. Rosch & Mervis, 1975). Tanaka and Corneille (2007) showed atypical faces are more easily recognised than typical faces and Kleider-Offutt et al. (2017) demonstrated that prototypicality can affect the activation of category association. Our hypothesis states that the more typical a face is, the less efficient the attentional shift is in reducing the own-race bias. Our results replicated the own-race bias (ORB), but we could not replicate Hills and Lewis’s (2011) results. We also did not confirm our hypothesis, since the only effect on typicality was a higher recogni tion for atypical faces of both racial groups. |
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