Cultural modulation effects on the self-face advantage: Do Caucasians find their own faces faster than Chinese?

Authors: Lee, J.K.W., Gregson, C., Janssen, S.M.J. and Estudillo, A.J.

Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volume: 76

Issue: 8

Pages: 1724-1739

eISSN: 1747-0226

ISSN: 1747-0218

DOI: 10.1177/17470218221142158

Abstract:

The self-face advantage (SFA) is reflected through a faster recognition of a self-face compared with familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nevertheless, as Westerners and East Asians tend to present differences in self-concept styles, it is possible that the SFA is modulated by culture. The present study explored this possibility using a visual search task. British Caucasians and Malaysian Chinese participants were asked to search for frontal view images of self, friend, and unfamiliar faces among an array of unfamiliar faces. Regardless of race, participants were more accurate and faster in searching for the own face and friend’s face compared with an unfamiliar face, with no differences in the search between the own and friend’s face, and these findings could not be accounted by the cultural differences in self-concept (i.e., operationalised by scores from the Independent and Interdependent Self-Concept Scale and the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Scale). Altogether our results suggest that culture does not modulate the SFA and that this effect is better explained by a familiar face advantage.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37841/

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Cultural modulation effects on the self-face advantage: Do Caucasians find their own faces faster than Chinese?

Authors: Lee, J.K., Gregson, C., Janssen, S.M. and Estudillo, A.J.

Journal: Q J Exp Psychol (Hove)

Volume: 76

Issue: 8

Pages: 1724-1739

eISSN: 1747-0226

DOI: 10.1177/17470218221142158

Abstract:

The self-face advantage (SFA) is reflected through a faster recognition of a self-face compared with familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nevertheless, as Westerners and East Asians tend to present differences in self-concept styles, it is possible that the SFA is modulated by culture. The present study explored this possibility using a visual search task. British Caucasians and Malaysian Chinese participants were asked to search for frontal view images of self, friend, and unfamiliar faces among an array of unfamiliar faces. Regardless of race, participants were more accurate and faster in searching for the own face and friend's face compared with an unfamiliar face, with no differences in the search between the own and friend's face, and these findings could not be accounted by the cultural differences in self-concept (i.e., operationalised by scores from the Independent and Interdependent Self-Concept Scale and the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Scale). Altogether our results suggest that culture does not modulate the SFA and that this effect is better explained by a familiar face advantage.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37841/

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Cultural modulation effects on the self-face advantage: Do Caucasians find their own faces faster than Chinese?

Authors: Lee, J.K.W., Gregson, C., Janssen, S.M.J. and Estudillo, A.J.

Journal: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Volume: 76

Issue: 8

Pages: 1724-1739

eISSN: 1747-0226

ISSN: 1747-0218

DOI: 10.1177/17470218221142158

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37841/

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Cultural modulation effects on the Self-Face Advantage: Do Caucasians find their own faces faster than Chinese?

Authors: Lee, J.K.W., Gregson, C., Janssen, S.M.J. and Estudillo, A.J.

Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

eISSN: 1747-0226

ISSN: 1747-0218

DOI: 10.1177/17470218221142158

Abstract:

The self-face advantage (SFA) is reflected through a faster recognition of a self-face compared to familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nevertheless, as Westerners and East Asians tend to present differences in self-concept styles, it is possible that the SFA is modulated by culture. The present study explored this possibility using a visual search task. British Caucasians and Malaysian Chinese participants were asked to search for frontal view images of self, friend, and unfamiliar faces among an array of unfamiliar faces. Regardless of race, participants were more accurate and faster in searching for the own face and friend's face compared to an unfamiliar face, with no differences in the search between the own and friend's face, and these findings could not be accounted by the cultural differences in self-concept (i.e., operationalized by SCS and HCIV scores). Altogether our results suggest that culture does not modulate the SFA and that this effect is better explained by a familiar face advantage.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37841/

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Cultural modulation effects on the self-face advantage: Do Caucasians find their own faces faster than Chinese?

Authors: Lee, J.K., Gregson, C., Janssen, S.M. and Estudillo, A.J.

Journal: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)

Volume: 76

Issue: 8

Pages: 1724-1739

eISSN: 1747-0226

ISSN: 1747-0218

DOI: 10.1177/17470218221142158

Abstract:

The self-face advantage (SFA) is reflected through a faster recognition of a self-face compared with familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nevertheless, as Westerners and East Asians tend to present differences in self-concept styles, it is possible that the SFA is modulated by culture. The present study explored this possibility using a visual search task. British Caucasians and Malaysian Chinese participants were asked to search for frontal view images of self, friend, and unfamiliar faces among an array of unfamiliar faces. Regardless of race, participants were more accurate and faster in searching for the own face and friend's face compared with an unfamiliar face, with no differences in the search between the own and friend's face, and these findings could not be accounted by the cultural differences in self-concept (i.e., operationalised by scores from the Independent and Interdependent Self-Concept Scale and the Horizontal and Vertical Individualism and Collectivism Scale). Altogether our results suggest that culture does not modulate the SFA and that this effect is better explained by a familiar face advantage.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37841/

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Cultural modulation effects on the Self-Face Advantage: Do Caucasians find their own faces faster than Chinese?

Authors: Lee, J.K.W., Gregson, C., Janssen, S.M.J. and Estudillo, A.J.

Journal: Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volume: 76

Issue: 8

Pages: 1724-1739

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

ISSN: 1747-0218

Abstract:

The self-face advantage (SFA) is reflected through a faster recognition of a self-face compared to familiar and unfamiliar faces. Nevertheless, as Westerners and East Asians tend to present differences in self-concept styles, it is possible that the SFA is modulated by culture. The present study explored this possibility using a visual search task. British Caucasians and Malaysian Chinese participants were asked to search for frontal view images of self, friend, and unfamiliar faces among an array of unfamiliar faces. Regardless of race, participants were more accurate and faster in searching for the own face and friend's face compared to an unfamiliar face, with no differences in the search between the own and friend's face, and these findings could not be accounted by the cultural differences in self-concept (i.e., operationalized by SCS and HCIV scores). Altogether our results suggest that culture does not modulate the SFA and that this effect is better explained by a familiar face advantage.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37841/

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