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The cross-race effect is thought to contribute to difficulties in cross-race identification, as well as implicit racial bias. [2] A number of theories as to why the cross-race effect exists have been conceived, including social cognition and perceptual expertise. However, no model has been able to fully account for the full body of evidence. [3]
Lindsay and Wei-Jen Ng found that there is no “cross-race effect” in which there is inferior facial recognition of races that the eyewitness has had a lack of contact with. [4] Though, their study yielded a failure of the contact hypothesis, there are still some studies that show that facial recognition and race play a role in influencing ...
Memory encoding isn't the only found cause of the cross-race effect; memory retrieval is also involved. In retrieving a memory, the parietal lobe is reactivated. When retrieving an other-race face, there is more reactivation of the parietal lobe, meaning more effort is needed to retrieve an other-race face memory.
This results in fewer misclassification errors among members of the same race/ethnicity (e.g., Latinx individuals are more likely to correctly recognize when someone else is Latinx) and more cross-race misclassification.
Six years later, Minnesota’s Fifth District is ushering in more firsts as Republican challenger, the Iraqi-born journalist-turned-politician Dalia al-Aqidi, makes this congressional race the ...
Racial politics or race politics is the use of race, as a human categorization or hierarchical identifier, in political discourse, campaigns, or within the societal and cultural climate created by such practice. The phenomenon can involve the activity of political actors exploiting the issue of race to forward an agenda.
Slavery, segregation and violence have had an enduring impact on race relations, not just in the South, but across the United States. Pearson acknowledged the weight of the past. But he sees hope ...
“I want you to listen to this. It’s not that the church has become political; it’s that politics has come into the realm of theology. That’s what’s happened. We haven’t moved. They ...