Undergraduate Honors Thesis
Extreme Cross-Race Contact and Eye Gaze Patterns During Face Perception Public Deposited
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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.
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