You're better at telling faces apart from your own race than others

Across more than a hundred studies, people consistently recognise faces from their own race more accurately than faces from other races, mistaking cross-race strangers for each other far more often. A large meta-analysis confirmed the effect appears worldwide regardless of which race counts as 'own', and it has contributed to real wrongful eyewitness identifications in court.

— Christian A. Meissner and John C. Brigham, Thirty Years of Investigating the Own-Race Bias in Memory for Faces: A Meta-Analytic Review — Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2001

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