Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge
Abstract During impression formation, perceptual cues facilitate social categorization while person-knowledge can promote individuation and enhance person memory. Although there is extensive literature on the cross-race recognition deficit, observed when racial ingroup faces are recognized more than...
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| description | Abstract During impression formation, perceptual cues facilitate social categorization while person-knowledge can promote individuation and enhance person memory. Although there is extensive literature on the cross-race recognition deficit, observed when racial ingroup faces are recognized more than outgroup faces, it is unclear whether a similar deficit exists when recalling individuating information about outgroup members. To better understand how perceived race can bias person memory, the present study examined how self-identified White perceivers’ interracial contact impacts learning of perceptual cues and person-knowledge about perceived Black and White others over five sessions of training. While person-knowledge facilitated face recognition accuracy for low-contact perceivers, face recognition accuracy did not differ for high-contact perceivers based on person-knowledge availability. The results indicate a bias towards better recall of ingroup person knowledge, which decreased for high-contact perceivers across the five-day training but simultaneously increased for low-contact perceivers. Overall, the elimination of racial bias in recall of person-knowledge among high-contact perceivers amid a persistent cross-race deficit in face recognition suggests that contact may have a greater impact on the recall of person-knowledge than on face recognition. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-f7d98b05bfa14ae09d08e7924552dda22025-01-26T12:51:03ZengNature PortfolioCommunications Psychology2731-91212025-01-013111410.1038/s44271-025-00187-9Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledgeMargaret Welte0Tzipporah P. Dang1Shaina Rosenblum2Jennifer T. Kubota3Jasmin Cloutier4Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of DelawareDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of DelawareDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of DelawareDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of DelawareDepartment of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of DelawareAbstract During impression formation, perceptual cues facilitate social categorization while person-knowledge can promote individuation and enhance person memory. Although there is extensive literature on the cross-race recognition deficit, observed when racial ingroup faces are recognized more than outgroup faces, it is unclear whether a similar deficit exists when recalling individuating information about outgroup members. To better understand how perceived race can bias person memory, the present study examined how self-identified White perceivers’ interracial contact impacts learning of perceptual cues and person-knowledge about perceived Black and White others over five sessions of training. While person-knowledge facilitated face recognition accuracy for low-contact perceivers, face recognition accuracy did not differ for high-contact perceivers based on person-knowledge availability. The results indicate a bias towards better recall of ingroup person knowledge, which decreased for high-contact perceivers across the five-day training but simultaneously increased for low-contact perceivers. Overall, the elimination of racial bias in recall of person-knowledge among high-contact perceivers amid a persistent cross-race deficit in face recognition suggests that contact may have a greater impact on the recall of person-knowledge than on face recognition.https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00187-9 |
| spellingShingle | Margaret Welte Tzipporah P. Dang Shaina Rosenblum Jennifer T. Kubota Jasmin Cloutier Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge Communications Psychology |
| title | Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge |
| title_full | Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge |
| title_fullStr | Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge |
| title_full_unstemmed | Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge |
| title_short | Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge |
| title_sort | interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person knowledge |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-025-00187-9 |
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