@article {254, title = {Nature and nurture in own-race face processing.}, journal = {Psychol Sci}, volume = {17}, year = {2006}, month = {2006 Feb}, pages = {159-63}, abstract = {

A standard visual preference task was used to examine 3-month-olds\&$\#$39; looking times at own-race versus other-race faces as a function of environmental exposure to faces from the two categories. Participants were Caucasian infants living in a Caucasian environment, African infants living in an African environment, and African infants living in a predominantly Caucasian environment. The results indicate that preference for own-race faces is present as early as 3 months of age, but that this preference results from exposure to the prototypical facial environment.

}, keywords = {Cognition, Ethnic Groups, Face, Humans, Infant, Social Environment, Visual Perception}, issn = {0956-7976}, doi = {10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01679.x}, author = {Bar-Haim, Yair and Ziv, Talee and Lamy, Dominique and Hodes, Richard M} }