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I know your face but not where I saw you: Context memory is impaired for other-race faces

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posted on 2023-06-08, 10:38 authored by Ruth Horry, Daniel B Wright
People are more likely to falsely identify a face of another race than a face of their own race. When witnesses make identifications, they often need to remember where they have previously encountered a face. Failure to remember the context of an encounter can result in unconscious transference and lead to misidentifications. Forty-five White participants were shown White and Black faces, each presented on one of five backgrounds. The participants had to identify these faces in an old/new recognition test. If participants stated that they had seen a face, they had to identify the context in which the face had originally appeared. Participants made more context errors with Black faces than with White faces. This shows that the own-race bias extends to context memory.

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  • Published

Journal

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

ISSN

1069-9384

Publisher

Psychonomic Society

Issue

3

Volume

15

Page range

610-614

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  • Psychology Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-05-01

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