Kawakami, KerryFargnoli Brown, Zoe Yumeng2025-04-102025-04-102024-08-232025-04-10https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42738People 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.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.PsychologyElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2025-04-10Own-race biasFace perceptionFacial recognitionEmotion perceptionEmotional expressionSocial categorizationIntergroup relationsIntergroup biasStereotypingChanging expressions