Recognizing Emily and Latisha: Inconsistent Effects of Name Stereotypicality on the Other-Race Effect.

ABSTRACT: A person's name may activate social category information, which has been shown to lead to stereotyping and discrimination in various contexts. However, no previous research has investigated the influence of names on more basic processes of person perception. We present a set of seven experimental studies examining the influence of names on face recognition, namely, on the other-race effect (i.e., the relative difficulty to recognize outgroup faces). White-American participants completed online recognition tasks with White ingroup faces and Black or Chinese outgroup faces. Outgroup faces were presented with typical outgroup names versus typical White names; White faces were presented with typical White names versus infrequent names. We expected better recognition of outgroup faces with typi

SUBMITTER: Stelter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5908905 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature