Developmental Origins of the Other-Race Effect

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 173-178

  Anzures, Gizelle ^a   Quinn, Paul C ^b   Pascalis, Olivier ^c   Slater, Alan M ^d   Tanaka, James W ^e   Lee, Kang ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

face perception; face processing; face recognition; other race effect; perceptual narrowing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878763523     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721412474459     Document Type: Review

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