Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect.

People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other‐'race' effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other‐race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members o...

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Published in:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 114; pp. 150 - 172
Main Authors: Stelter, Marleen, Simon, Deja, Calanchini, Jimmy, Christ, Oliver, Degner, Juliane
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell May2023 Supplement 1
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        atl: Real‐life outgroup exposure, self‐reported outgroup contact and the other‐race effect.
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          Stelter, Marleen
          Simon, Deja
          Calanchini, Jimmy
          Christ, Oliver
          Degner, Juliane
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          Department of Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany
          Institute of Psychology, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
          Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, Riverside California,, USA
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        Memory
        Self-evaluation
        Race
        Interpersonal relations
        White people
        Residential patterns
        Group process
        African Americans
        Global Positioning System
        Face perception
        Theory
        Descriptive statistics
        Research funding
        Middle Easterners
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          Memory
          Self-evaluation
          Race
          Interpersonal relations
          White people
          Residential patterns
          Group process
          African Americans
          Germany
          Global Positioning System
          Face perception
          Theory
          Descriptive statistics
          Research funding
          Middle Easterners
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        cross‐race recognition deficit
        ethnic neighbourhood composition
        GPS tracking
        other‐race effect
        outgroup contact
        own‐group bias
        cross‐race recognition deficit
        ethnic neighbourhood composition
        GPS tracking
        other‐race effect
        outgroup contact
        own‐group bias
      ab: People are better at recognizing faces from their own racial or ethnic group compared with faces from other racial or ethnic groups, known as the other‐'race' effect (ORE). Several theories of the ORE assume that memory for other‐race faces is impaired because people have less contact with members of other racial or ethnic groups, resulting in lower visual expertise. The present research investigates contact theories of the ORE, using self‐report contact measures and objective measures of potential outgroup exposure (estimated from participants' residential location and from GPS tracking). Across six studies (total N = 2660), we observed that White American and White German participants displayed better memory for White faces compared with Black or Middle Eastern faces, whereas Black American participants displayed similarly equal or better memory for White compared with Black faces. We did not observe any relations between the ORE and objective measures of potential outgroup exposure. Only in Studies 2a and 2b, we observed very small correlations (rs = −.08 to.06) between 4 out of 30 contact measures and the ORE. We discuss methodological limitations and implications for theories of the ORE.
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