Aj. Bruce et al., AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND CAUCASIAN AMERICANS RECOGNITION AND LIKABILITY RESPONSES TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN AMERICAN FACES, The Journal of general psychology, 124(2), 1997, pp. 143-156
Female African American and Caucasian American participants were shown
female faces of their own racial group and/or another racial group. I
n Experiment I, participants saw either African American or Caucasian
American faces; in Experiment 2, all participants saw faces of both ra
ces. Approximately half of the participants received instructions and
forms for recognition responses, whereas the other half received instr
uctions and forms for attraction responses. The attraction scores in E
xperiments 1 and 2 revealed an exposure effect when participants viewe
d Caucasian American faces but not when they viewed African American f
aces. There was no evidence of cross-racial bias in Experiment 1. Expe
riment 2 revealed some evidence of cross-racial bias, in the finding t
hat Caucasian Americans performed more poorly and made more errors in
recognition of African American faces than of Caucasian American faces
.