How race and age experiences shape young children's face processing abilities

作者：Cassia, Viola Macchi^*; Luo, Lizhu; Pisacane, Antonella; Li, Hong; Lee, Kang

来源：Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2014, 120: 87-101.

DOI：10.1016/j.jecp.2013.11.016

• Face perception
• Inversion effect
• Children
• Other-race effect
• Own-race bias
• Other-age effect
• Own-age bias
• Sibling experience

Despite recent advances in research on race and age biases, the question of how race and age experiences combine to affect young children's face perception remains unexplored. To fill this gap, the current study tested two ethnicities of 3-year-old children using a combined cross-race/cross-age design. Caucasian children with and without older siblings and Mainland Chinese children without older siblings were tested for their ability to discriminate adult and child Caucasian faces as well as adult and child Asian faces in both upright and inverted orientations. Children of both ethnicities manifested an own-race bias, which was confined to adult faces, and an adult face bias, which was confined to own-race faces. Likewise, sibling experience affected Caucasian children's processing of own-race child faces, but this effect did not generalize to other-race faces. Results suggest that race and age information are represented at the same hierarchical level in young children's memory.

• 出版日期2014-4
• 单位西南大学; 辽宁师范大学