Biases in face perception: Evidence from face matching tasks with own and other races, ages and species

Abstract

We know from the literature that we are better at remembering people from our own groups (own ethnic heritage, age, social groups etc). This article outlines three experiments looking at biases in face matching tasks – tasks which do not require memory. We tested people with faces from their own and other ethnic heritage, age, and species and did not find coherent evidence for own group biases in face matching.