The effects of presentation methods and semantic information on multi-ethnicity face recognition

• Autores: Kristjan Kask, Kaarel Rundu
• Localización: The European journal of psychology applied to legal context, ISSN 1889-1861, Vol. 4, Nº. 1, 2012, págs. 43-57
• Idioma: inglés
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  • español

    La literatura ha demostrado que caras de la raza propia son reconocidas con mayor exactitud que las de otras razas. El presente estudio examinó los efectos del reconocimiento de caras en condiciones de presentación conjunta de personas de diferentes etnias. Asimismo, también se estudió el efecto de la información semántica en el reconocimiento de caras de razas distintas. Para ello, se le presentaron a los participantes (N = 234) fotografías de caras de su propia y de otras razas. Para unos participantes, las fotografías de las caras fueron presentadas con nombres estereotipados y para otros no. Como se había hipotetizado, las caras de la raza propia, en comparación caras de otras razas, fueron reconocidas mejor en ruedas de identificación con el sospechoso presente a la vez que se registraron mayores rechazos correctos en ruedas con el sospechoso ausente. Caras de otras razas fueron

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    Studies have shown that own-race faces are more accurately recognised than other-race faces. The present study examined the effects of own- and other-race face recognition when different ethnicity targets are presented to the participants together. Also the effect of semantic information on the recognition of different race faces was examined. The participants (N = 234) were presented with photos of own-race and other-race faces. For some participants the faces were presented with stereotypical names and for some not. As hypothesized, own-race faces were better recognised in target-present lineup and more correctly rejected in target-absent lineup than other-race faces. Concerning presentation method, both own-race and other-race faces were more correctly identified in target-present simultaneous than in target-present sequential lineups. No effects of stereotypical names on face recognition were found. The findings suggest that identifying multi-ethnicity perpetrators is a problematic and difficult task

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