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 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 recogniti

SUBMITTER: Welte M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11751151 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature