Despite global increases in diversity, social prejudices continue to fuel intergroup conflict,
disparities and discrimination. Moreover, as norms have become more egalitarian …

In this review, we synthesize the existing literature demonstrating the dynamic interplay
between conceptual knowledge and visual perceptual processing. We consider two …

EEG data, and specifically the ERP, provide psychologists with the power to examine quickly
occurring cognitive processes at the native temporal resolution at which they occur. Despite …

Research on skin tone and Afrocentric features provides evidence that people use
phenotypes (visible physical characteristics) to make inferences about the degree to which …

The N170 event-related potential (ERP) component differentiates faces from non-faces, but
studies aimed at investigating whether the processing indexed by this component is also …

Previous research has not sufficiently addressed factors that define and moderate racial
categorization judgments. This study independently manipulated skin color and facial …

Influential social-psychological models suggest that perceivers frequently use information-
processing strategies that result in the stereotype-based construal and treatment of other …

People are generally better at recognizing faces from their own race than from a different
race, as has been shown in numerous behavioral studies. Here we use event-related …

This review examines the emergence and development of perceptual and social biases
towards own-race individuals. We first discuss evidence regarding the early emergence of …

Humans are more accurate at remembering faces from their own relative to a different ethnic
group (own-race bias). Moreover, better memory for faces from an observer's own relative to …