Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it
remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the …

The other-race effect (ORE), or the finding that same-race faces are better recognized than
other-race faces, is one of the best replicated phenomena in face recognition. The current …

The primary aim of this chapter is to provide a framework to understand and synthesize the
processes of person construal—early perceptions that lead to initial ingroup/outgroup …

Two identical top halves of a face are perceived as being different when their bottom halves
belong to different faces, showing that the parts of a face cannot be perceived independently …

Although humans possess well-developed face processing expertise, face processing is
nevertheless subject to a variety of biases. Perhaps the best known of these biases is the …

The primary elections that set the stage for the 2008 US presidential elections constituted a
“premi è re” in American history. Traditionally, party delegates end up choosing among …

Few concepts are more central to the study of face recognition than holistic processing.
Progress toward understanding holistic processing is challenging because the term “holistic” …

Extensive research has investigated societal and behavioral consequences of social group
affiliation and identification but has been relatively silent on the role of perception in …

Background Eye movement strategies employed by humans to identify conspecifics are not
universal. Westerners predominantly fixate the eyes during face recognition, whereas …

Exponential increases in multiracial identities, expected over the next century, create a
conundrum for perceivers accustomed to classifying people as their own-or other-race. The …