There has been a recent surge of interest in the question of how infants respond to the social attributes of race and gender information in faces. This work has demonstrated that by 3 months of age, infants will respond preferentially to same-race faces and faces depicting the gender of the primary caregiver. In the current study, we investigated emergence of the female face preference for same- versus other-race faces to examine whether the determinants of preference for face gender and race are independent or interactive in young infants. In Expt I, 3-month-old Caucasian infants displayed a preference for female over male faces when the faces were Caucasian, but not when the faces were Asian. In Expt 2, new-born Caucasian infants did not demonstrate a preference for female over male faces for Caucasian faces. The results are discussed in terms of a face prototype that becomes progressively tuned as it is structured by the interaction of the gender and race of faces that are experienced during early development.

中文翻译：

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婴儿对女性面孔的偏爱发生在同种族而非其他种族的面孔上。

最近，人们对婴儿如何应对面部表情和性别信息的社会属性问题产生了兴趣。这项工作表明，到3个月大时，婴儿将对同种族的面孔和描述主要看护人性别的面孔做出优先反应。在当前的研究中，我们调查了女性对同种族或其他种族面孔的偏爱出现，以检查对面孔性别和种族的偏爱决定因素在婴儿中是独立的还是互动的。在Expt I中，当3个月大的白种人婴儿是高加索人时，相对于男性面孔，女性更偏爱女性，而不是亚洲人。在Expt 2中，高加索人的初生高加索婴儿没有表现出比男性更喜欢女性。