Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Abstract

• Previous scholarly works have documented a cross-race deficit in terms of people’s ability to
  recognize faces. This deficit may be related to differences in eye-gaze patterns during encoding
  of the face. Research has also found that the deficit can be reduced by cross-race contact. The
  current study compares individuals who have had unusually high levels of contact with their
  outgroup to individuals with minimal contact. All participants performed a face encoding task
  during which we recorded eye gaze. Accordingly, we explored the association between contact
  and eye-gaze patterns during face encoding. The results of the present study suggest that people
  generally orient more attention to the left eye of an encoded face. Furthermore, this preference
  for the left eye depends on the race of the face and participants’ cross-race contact during
  childhood. This implies that the contact people have while they are in their childhood years has a
  profound effect on their ability to discriminate faces based on their racial ingroup and outgroup
  later in life.

Creator

• Smith, Taylor

Date Awarded

• 2024-04-04

Academic Affiliation

• Psychology and Neuroscience

Advisor

• Correll, Joshua

Committee Member

• Carston, McKell
• Gibert, John C

Granting Institution

• University of Colorado Boulder

Last Modified

• 2024-04-18

Resource Type

• Undergraduate Honors Thesis

Rights Statement

• In Copyright

Language

• English [eng]

Relationships

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• Arts and Sciences Honors Program

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