'They all look alike to me': Prejudice and cross-race face recognition

We investigated whether prejudice level influences the size of the other-ra ce effect (poorer recognition of other-race compared with own-race faces). Previous studies, using self-report measures of prejudice, failed to find a relationship between prejudice and the other-race effect. We used an impli cit prejudice measure, developed by Fazio, Jackson, Dunton, and Williams (1 995), to determine whether implicit prejudice influences the size of the ot her-race effect. A self-report measure of prejudice, Walker's (1994) Attitu des to Asians Scale, was also included to replicate previous results. A gro up of 30 high prejudice and 30 low prejudice Caucasian participants, as det ermined by the self-report measure, were run through a procedure which asse sses implicit prejudice and recognition performance at the same time. Neith er implicit nor self-reported prejudice level influenced the size of the ot her-race effect. Unexpectedly, implicit and self-report prejudice influence d (in opposite ways) recognition of own-race faces. The implications of the se results for understanding the other-race effect are discussed.