Collaboration to improve cross-race face identification: Wisdom of the multi-racial crowd?

ABSTRACT: Face identification is particularly prone to error when individuals identify people of a race other than their own - a phenomenon known as the other-race effect (ORE). Here, we show that collaborative "wisdom-of-crowds" decision-making substantially improves face identification accuracy for own- and other-race faces over individuals working alone. In two online experiments, East Asian and White individuals recognized own- and other-race faces as individuals and as part of a collaborative dyad. Collaboration never proved more beneficial in a social setting than when individual identification decisions were combined computationally. The reliable benefit of non-social collaboration may stem from its ability to avoid the potential negative outcomes of group diversity such as conflict. Consiste

SUBMITTER: Cavazos JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10592228 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature