ABSTRACT
The own race bias,1 or the tendency to have better recognition for faces of
one’s racial ingroup than for racial outgroup faces, is one of the most robust
biases in face perception and has been known to psychologists for more than
a half century (e.g., Allport, 1954; Malpass & Kravitz, 1969). In fact, the
Please address all correspondence to Kurt Hugenberg, Miami University, Oxford, OH,
USA. E-mail: hugenbk@miamioh.edu
This work was supported by NSF grant BCS-0951463, awarded to KH. 1The own race bias has been known by various terms in the literature (and in our own
work), including the own race effect, the other race effect, the cross race effect, and the cross
race recognition deficit. All such monikers refer to the tendency to have superior face memory
for members of racial ingroups than racial outgroups.
