Development of the other-race effect during infancy: Evidence toward universality?

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 105-114

  Kelly, David J ^a   Liu, Shaoying ^b   Lee, Kang ^c   Quinn, Paul C ^d   Pascalis, Olivier ^e   Slater, Alan M ^f   Ge, Liezhong ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b ZHEJIANG SCI TECH UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Culture; Development; Face processing; Infancy; Other race effect; Perceptual narrowing

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CAUCASIAN; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECOGNITION; VISION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 67349112788     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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