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Preferred term

contact theory  

Definition

  • A theory according to which people recognize other-race faces with less accuracy than own-face faces because they have less social contact with people of other racial groups.

Broader concept

Related concepts

Entry terms

  • contact hypothesis
  • cross-race contact theory

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Chiroro, P., & Valentine, T. (1995). An investigation of the contact hypothesis of the own-race bias in face recognition. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 48(4), 879–894. https://doi.org/10.1080/14640749508401421

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Singh, B., Mellinger, C., Earls, H. A., Tran, J., Bardsley, B., & Correll, J. (2022). Does cross-race contact improve cross-race face perception? A meta-analysis of the cross-race deficit and contact. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 48(6), 865–887. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211024463

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
  • • Stelter, M., Simon, D., Calanchini, J., Christ, O., & Degner, J. (2023). Real-life outgroup exposure, self-reported outgroup contact and the other-race effect. British Journal of Psychology, 114(S1), 150–171. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12600

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]
  • • Wong, H. K., Stephen, I. D., & Keeble, D. R. T. (2020). The own-race bias for face recognition in a multiracial society. Frontiers in Psychology, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00208

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: open]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Theory of

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Singh, B., Mellinger, C., Earls, H. A., Tran, J., Bardsley, B., & Correll, J. (2021). Does Cross-Race Contact Improve Cross-Race Face Perception? A Meta-Analysis of the Cross-Race Deficit and Contact. https://osf.io/avh3x/

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