The Impact of Changing Emotional Expressions on the Own-Race Bias

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorKawakami, Kerry
dc.contributor.authorFargnoli Brown, Zoe Yumeng
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-10T10:40:49Z
dc.date.available2025-04-10T10:40:49Z
dc.date.copyright2024-08-23
dc.date.issued2025-04-10
dc.date.updated2025-04-10T10:40:49Z
dc.degree.disciplinePsychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality)
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractPeople tend to better recognize racial ingroup compared to outgroup faces, a widely demonstrated effect known as the Own-Race Bias (ORB). Past research demonstrating this effect has typically presented the same facial stimuli during encoding and recognition. Across three experiments, I investigated whether changing emotional expressions (angry versus neutral) impacted White perceivers’ recognition of White and Black faces. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that participants demonstrated a strong ORB when neutral or angry expressions were presented during both encoding and recognition. Results from Experiment 2 demonstrated that when neutral expressions changed to angry expressions, although overall recognition accuracy decreased, participants still showed a strong ORB. Results from Experiment 3 indicated that when angry expressions changed to neutral expressions, participants showed a larger decrease in recognition accuracy for White compared Black targets, ultimately reducing the ORB. The implications of these findings for facial recognition in an intergroup context are discussed.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/42738
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPsychology
dc.subject.keywordsOwn-race bias
dc.subject.keywordsFace perception
dc.subject.keywordsFacial recognition
dc.subject.keywordsEmotion perception
dc.subject.keywordsEmotional expression
dc.subject.keywordsSocial categorization
dc.subject.keywordsIntergroup relations
dc.subject.keywordsIntergroup bias
dc.subject.keywordsStereotyping
dc.subject.keywordsChanging expressions
dc.titleThe Impact of Changing Emotional Expressions on the Own-Race Bias
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

Files

Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
Zoe_Yumeng_Fargnoli_Brown_2024_MA.pdf
Size:
1.34 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download
License bundle
Now showing 1 - 2 of 2
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
license.txt
Size:
1.87 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
YorkU_ETDlicense.txt
Size:
3.39 KB
Format:
Plain Text
Description:
Download

Collections

Psychology (Functional Area: Social and Personality)

All items in the YorkSpace institutional repository are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved except where explicitly noted.