The India Face Set: International and Cultural Boundaries Impact Face Impressions and Perceptions of Category Membership.

ABSTRACT: This paper serves three specific goals. First, it reports the development of an Indian Asian face set, to serve as a free resource for psychological research. Second, it examines whether the use of pre-tested U.S.-specific norms for stimulus selection or weighting may introduce experimental confounds in studies involving non-U.S. face stimuli and/or non-U.S. participants. Specifically, it examines whether subjective impressions of the face stimuli are culturally dependent, and the extent to which these impressions reflect social stereotypes and ingroup favoritism. Third, the paper investigates whether differences in face familiarity impact accuracy in identifying face ethnicity. To this end, face images drawn from volunteers in India as well as a subset of Caucasian face images from the Ch

SUBMITTER: Lakshmi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7905305 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature