The Other-Race Effect in a Longitudinal Sample of 3-, 6- and 9-Month-Old Infants: Evidence of a Training Effect

Infancy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 516-533

  Spangler, Sibylle M ^a   Schwarzer, Gudrun ^a   Freitag, Claudia ^a   Vierhaus, Marc ^b   Teubert, Manuel ^b   Fassbender, Ina ^b   Lohaus, Arnold ^b   Kolling, Thorsten ^c   Graf, Frauke ^c   Goertz, Claudia ^c   Knopf, Monika ^c   Lamm, Bettina ^d   Keller, Heidi ^d  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CRYING; ETHNICITY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 84878787330     PISSN: 15250008     EISSN: 15327078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00137.x     Document Type: Article

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