Cross-Race Effect
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The cross-race effect, also known as the other-race effect, refers to the tendency for people to more easily distinguish faces of their own familiar race than those of other races. In cognitive psychology, it is classified as a memory error and bias. In 1991, Stephen Lindsay proposed the cross-race effect.
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The cross-race effect, also known as the other-race effect, refers to the tendency for people to more easily distinguish faces of their own familiar race than those of other races. In cognitive psychology, it is classified as a memory error and bias. In 1991, Stephen Lindsay proposed the cross-race effect.
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Also known as the 'other-race disadvantage', it refers to the significantly lower accuracy in recognizing faces of other races compared to one's own race. The mechanism is related to 'contact frequency' and 'encoding strategy': for own-race faces, the brain focuses more on individual features, while for other-race faces, it relies on categorical processing.
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