The rise of the multiracial population has been met with a growing body of research examining multiracial face perception. A common method for creating multiracial face stimuli in past research has been mathematically averaging two monoracial “parent” faces of different races to create computer-generated multiracial morphs, but conclusions from research using morphs will only be accurate to the extent that morphs yield perceptual decisions similar to those that would be made with real multiracial faces. The current studies compared race classifications of real and morphed multiracial face stimuli. We found that oval-masked morphed faces were classified as multiracial significantly more often than oval-masked real multiracial faces (Studies 1 and 2), but at comparable levels to unmasked real multiracial faces (Study 2). Study 3 examined factors that could explain differences in how morphs and real multiracial faces are categorized and pointed to the potential role that unusualness/distinctiveness might play.

越来越多的研究检查多种族面部感知，多种族人口的增加也随之而来。在过去的研究中创建多种族面部刺激的一种常用方法是对不同种族的两个单种族“父母”面部进行数学平均，以创建计算机生成的多种族变形，但使用变形的研究得出的结论只有在变形产生感知决策的范围内才是准确的类似于用真正的多种族面孔制作的那些。目前的研究比较了真实和变形的多种族面部刺激的种族分类。我们发现椭圆形蒙面的变形面孔比椭圆形蒙面的真实多种族面孔更常被归类为多种族面孔（研究 1 和 2），但与未蒙面的真实多种族面孔的水平相当（研究 2）。