Paper Info
Title
Differences of Affective Learning with Own-Race and Other-Race Faces: An Eye-Tracking Study.
Abstract
Minimal affective learning is a phenomenon wherein people can learn about the affective meaning of other people with brief behavioral descriptions. Prior research mainly focused on affective learning with own-race faces. Own-race bias is a robust phenomenon describing that people can recognize own-race faces more efficiently than other-race faces. In the current study, we investigated whether own-race bias would influence minimal affective learning. Chinese participants learned Chinese and Caucasian faces paired with behaviors of different valence. After learning, they were asked to evaluate the learned faces and novel faces. Their eye movements and pupil diameters were continuously monitored during the experiment. We analyzed the change in pupil dilation to assess how much cognitive effort was required for affective learning. The results showed that participants only learned positive information with faces. Learning performance for other-race faces was similar with own-race faces. In addition, change of pupil dilation was larger when learning other-race than own-race faces, suggesting a greater cognitive effort for affective learning with other-race faces. Taken together, the results demonstrated that affective learning for other-race faces was more difficult than own-race faces. This research provided more support for the notion that different cognitive strategies were employed by faces of different race.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-40030-3_10
Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Keywords
Field
DocType
Affective learning,Own-race bias,Eye movements,Pupil dilation
Affective learning,Pupillary response,Cognitive psychology,Psychology,Pupil,Eye tracking,Eye movement,Phenomenon,Affect (psychology),Cognition
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9736
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Junchen Shang100.34
Xiaolan Fu278660.72