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Research Article
Nature and Nurture in Own-Race Face Processing
Yair Bar-Haim 1 , Talee Ziv 1 , Dominique Lamy 1 and Richard M. Hodes 2
  1 Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel, and   2 American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
 Address correspondence to Yair Bar-Haim, Department of Psychology, Tel-Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel, e-mail: yair1@post.tau.ac.il.
Copyright Copyright © 2006 Association for Psychological Science

ABSTRACT

ABSTRACT—A standard visual preference task was used to examine 3-month-olds' looking times at own-race versus other-race faces as a function of environmental exposure to faces from the two categories. Participants were Caucasian infants living in a Caucasian environment, African infants living in an African environment, and African infants living in a predominantly Caucasian environment. The results indicate that preference for own-race faces is present as early as 3 months of age, but that this preference results from exposure to the prototypical facial environment.


(Received 12/6/04; Revision accepted 2/18/05; Final materials received 3/10/05)

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10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01679.x About DOI

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