Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge
| Author(s) | Welte, Margaret | |
| Date Accessioned | 2024-09-23T16:41:49Z | |
| Date Available | 2024-09-23T16:41:49Z | |
| Publication Date | 2024 | |
| SWORD Update | 2024-09-15T22:01:58Z | |
| 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 novel 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. | |
| Advisor | Cloutier, Jasmin | |
| Advisor | Kubota, Jennifer T. | |
| Degree | M.S. | |
| Department | University of Delaware, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.58088/vgpv-a773 | |
| Unique Identifier | 1472789718 | |
| URL | https://udspace.udel.edu/handle/19716/35112 | |
| Language | en | |
| Publisher | University of Delaware | |
| URI | https://www.proquest.com/pqdtlocal1006271/dissertations-theses/interracial-contact-shapes-racial-bias-learning/docview/3104905083/sem-2?accountid=10457 | |
| Keywords | Racial bias | |
| Keywords | Interracial contact | |
| Keywords | Face recognition | |
| Keywords | Perceptual cues | |
| Title | Interracial contact shapes racial bias in the learning of person-knowledge | |
| Type | Thesis |