AFRICAN-AMERICANS AND CAUCASIAN AMERICANS RECOGNITION AND LIKABILITY RESPONSES TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN AMERICAN FACES

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 .