What is the term in describing people have difficulties to recognize the faces other than his/her ethnic?
Why do ‘they all look alike’? It’s not that people can’t perceive subtle differences among those who belong to other racial groups. Rather, they code race first, then don’t explore a person’s more distinguishing features, a new study suggests. BY SIRI CARPENTER Monitor staff People are notoriously awful at recognizing faces from other races. It’s a human foible often explained by the notion that we have more experience looking at members of our own race and thus acquire “perceptual expertise” for characteristics of our own kind. One influential version of that hypothesis argues that the so-called cross-race recognition deficit can be modeled by assuming that faces of other races are more psychologically similar than are faces of one’s own race. But Daniel Levin, PhD, a cognitive psychologist at Kent State University, has been unsatisfied with that argument. “The perceptual expertise position is pretty intuitive, and it makes sense,” he says. “But I’m arguing that it’s not really the ca
