Contact and other-race effects in configural and component processing of faces

British Journal of Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 717-728

  Rhodes, Gillian ^a   Ewing, Louise ^a   Hayward, William G ^b   Maurer, Daphne ^c   Mondloch, Catherine J ^d   Tanaka, James W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHINA; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHNIC GROUPS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISTORTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DISTANCE; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73349108502     PISSN: 20448295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000712608X396503     Document Type: Article

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