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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Année : 2009

Development of the other-race effect during infancy: evidence toward universality?

David J Kelly
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Kang Lee
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Paul C Quinn
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Alan M Slater
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Liezhong Ge
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Résumé

The other-race effect in face processing develops within the first year of life in Caucasian infants. It is currently unknown whether the developmental trajectory observed in Caucasian infants can be extended to other cultures. This is an important issue to investigate because recent findings from cross-cultural psychology have suggested that individuals from Eastern and Western backgrounds tend to perceive the world in fundamentally different ways. To this end, the current study investigated 3-, 6-, and 9-month-old Chinese infants' ability to discriminate faces within their own racial group and within two other racial groups (African and Caucasian). The 3-month-olds demonstrated recognition in all conditions, whereas the 6-month-olds recognized Chinese faces and displayed marginal recognition for Caucasian faces but did not recognize African faces. The 9-month-olds' recognition was limited to Chinese faces. This pattern of development is consistent with the perceptual narrowing hypothesis that our perceptual systems are shaped by experience to be optimally sensitive to stimuli most commonly encountered in one's unique cultural environment.

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hal-00827879 , version 1 (29-05-2013)

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David J Kelly, Shaoying Liu, Kang Lee, Paul C Quinn, Olivier Pascalis, et al.. Development of the other-race effect during infancy: evidence toward universality?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2009, 104 (1), pp.105-14. ⟨10.1016/j.jecp.2009.01.006⟩. ⟨hal-00827879⟩
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