Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces

Developmental Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Kelly, David J ^a   Quinn, Paul C ^b   Slater, Alan M ^c   Lee, Kang ^d   Gibson, Alan ^a   Smith, Michael ^a   Ge, Liezhong ^e   Pascalis, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; RECOGNITION; VISION;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 27744438620     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2005.0434a.x     Document Type: Article

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