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You are significantly worse at distinguishing faces of other races.
The 'own-race effect' is a well-documented psychological phenomenon where individuals are more accurate at recognizing faces of their own race compared to other races.
While the Perceptual Expertise Hypothesis is a leading theory, it is one of several explanations; the 1969 Malpass & Kravitz study empirically demonstrated the recognition gap but did not establish the 'granular memory encoding' mechanism.
Your perception is narrowed by your own personal experience.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Malpass & Kravitz, 1969
- What the check found
- The core phenomenon is real, but the claim incorrectly frames a specific 1969 behavioral study as the source for a modern neurobiological theory of cognitive encoding.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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One of these every day, and every one names the study it came from. When a finding is contested, it says so.