Own-Race Bias and Memory for Faces

Own-Race Bias and Memory for Faces

a 3 page paper for my memory improvement class.

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Own-Race Bias (ORB) refers to the tendency of identifying and differentiating faces of one’s race easily compared to that of other races. This concept explains the common notion that members of another racial group “all-look-alike.” As such, Own-Race Bias influences an individual’s memory for faces. ORB has caused significant problems during the recognition of criminals by eyewitnesses as people are less accurate when identifying members of a different race or ethnic group particularly for adolescents (Havard, Humphries & Memon, 2016). Research highlights that when the suspect and the witness are of different races or ethnic group, the eyewitness has a 50% chance of making a wrong ID (Seutloali, 2015). The phenomenon

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