This study tested how the cross-race effect (CRE) varies across Asian, Latino, and White participants within a racially diverse context. Furthermore, it assessed how disrupting the racial categorization process of the CRE externally (racial ambiguity) and internally (cultural priming) moderates the CRE. Participants studied racially unambiguous and ambiguous Asian, Black, Latino and White faces. After studying half of the faces, participants were primed for their racial/ethnic identity or American identity. Before the prime, in racially unambiguous faces, only White participants exhibited the CRE for all other-race faces. Latino participants exhibited a limited CRE, and Asian participants did not show the CRE at all. For racially ambiguous faces, while Latino and White participants showed no CRE, Asian participants did for Latino and White faces. In addition, cultural priming moderated the CRE variously for the participant groups, suggesting that directing attention to different cultural identities may have ramifications for face processing.

这项研究测试了种族差异背景下亚洲，拉丁裔和白人参与者的交叉种族效应（CRE）如何变化。此外，它评估了从外部（种族歧义）和内部（文化启动）破坏CRE的种族分类过程如何缓和CRE。参加者研究了种族明确，模棱两可的亚洲，黑人，拉丁裔和白人面孔。在研究了一半的面孔之后，参与者因其种族/种族身份或美国身份而准备就绪。黄金时段之前，在种族明确的面孔中，只有白人参与者展示了所有其他种族面孔的CRE。拉丁裔参与者的CRE数量有限，而亚洲参与者则完全没有CRE。对于种族歧义的面孔，尽管拉丁美洲和白人参与者没有显示CRE，但亚洲参与者对拉丁美洲和白人面孔却没有。