THEY DONT ALL LOOK ALIKE - INDIVIDUATED IMPRESSIONS OF OTHER RACIAL GROUPS

Reliability, content, and homogeneity of own- and other-race impressio ns were assessed: U.S. White, US. Black, and Korean students rated fac es of White, Black, or Korean men. High intraracial reliabilities reve aled that people of 1 race showed equally high agreement regarding the traits of own- and other-race faces. Racially universal appearance st ereotypes-the attractiveness halo effect and the babyface overgenerali zation effect-contributed substantially to interracial agreement, whic h was only marginally lower than intraracial agreement. Moreover, simi lar attention to variations in appearance yielded similar degrees of o wn- and other-race trait differentiation. When own- and other-race dif ferences in the differentiation of faces on babyfaceness were statisti cally controlled, differences in trait differentiation were eliminated . Despite the individuated impressions of other-race faces, certain ra cial stereotypes persisted.