Searching for Differences in Race: Is There Evidence for Preferential Detection of Other-Race Faces?

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 350-360

  Lipp, Ottmar V ^a   Terry, Deborah J ^a   Smith, Joanne R ^b   Tellegen, Cassandra L ^a   Kuebbeler, Jennifer ^a   Newey, Mareka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fear relevance; other race effect; visual search

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDONESIA; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTENTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 66949129395     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015530     Document Type: Article

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