Psychology

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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