Not all emotional expressions facilitate recognition of other-race faces in Chinese infants.

Shaoying Liu, Shuaike Hu, Jiali Chen, Linlin Yan, Guangxi Liu

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Shaoying LiuDepartment of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, No. 928, 2nd Street, Xiasha Higher Education Park, Hangzhou, 310018, China. syliu@zstu.edu.cn.

Shuaike HuDepartment of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, No. 928, 2nd Street, Xiasha Higher Education Park, Hangzhou, 310018, China.

Jiali ChenDepartment of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, No. 928, 2nd Street, Xiasha Higher Education Park, Hangzhou, 310018, China.

Linlin YanDepartment of Psychology, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, No. 928, 2nd Street, Xiasha Higher Education Park, Hangzhou, 310018, China. yanlinlin@zstu.edu.cn.

Guangxi LiuXiasha Street Community Health Service Center, No. 768, Songqiao Street, Qiantang District, Hangzhou, 310018, China.

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Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province LY22C090004Zhejiang Provincial Education Science Planning Project 2024SCG329

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Abstract

Previous research has shown that the addition of happy or angry expressions to other-race faces can assist infants in overcoming the perceptual narrowing of face race and reinstating their recognition of other-race faces. In the present study, we examined how different facial expressions (happy, angry, fearful, and neutral) influence the recognition of African faces among Chinese infants aged 8 to 12 months. We employed a visual familiarization task and measured infants' looking time. The results revealed that infants exhibited above-chance discrimination of African faces in the happy and angry conditions, but not in the neutral or fearful conditions. The findings suggest that not all facial expressions have a uniform effect on infants' ability to recognize faces of other races.

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EmotionsFacial ExpressionFacial RecognitionRecognition, PsychologySocial PerceptionChinaEast Asian PeopleFemaleHumansInfantMale

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PMID40056249

DOI10.1007/s00426-025-02098-0

PMCPMC11890407

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