EEG assessment of the impacts of race and implicit bias on facial expression processing.

ABSTRACT: Apparent race of a face impacts processing efficiency, typically leading to an own-race advantage. For instance, own-race facial expressions are more accurately recognized, and their intensity better appraised, compared to other-race faces. Furthermore, these effects appear susceptible to implicit bias. Here, we aimed to better understand impacts of race and implicit racial bias on facial expression processing by looking at automatic and nonautomatic expression processing stages. To this end, scalp electroencephalography was recorded off a group of White participants while they completed a psychological refractory period dual-task paradigm in which they viewed neutral or fearful White (i.e. own-race) and Black (i.e. other-race) faces. Results showed that, irrespective of race, early percep

SUBMITTER: Roberge A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11932147 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature