I know your face but not where I saw you: Context memory is impaired for other-race faces |
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Authors: | Ruth Horry Daniel B. Wright |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA;(2) Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA;(3) John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, USA |
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Abstract: | People are more likely to falsely identify a face of another race than a face of their own race. When witnesses make identifications, they often need to remember where they have previously encountered a face. Failure to remember the context of an encounter can result in unconscious transference and lead to misidentifications. Forty-five White participants were shown White and Black faces, each presented on one of five backgrounds. The participants had to identify these faces in an old/new recognition test. If participants stated that they had seen a face, they had to identify the context in which the face had originally appeared. Participants made more context errors with Black faces than with White faces. This shows that the own-race bias extends to context memory. |
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