Barack Obama or Barry Dunham? The Appearance of Multiracial Faces is Affected by the Names Assigned to Them

Perception ◽  
10.1068/p6255 ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1605-1608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirin F Hilliar ◽  
Richard I Kemp
Keyword(s):  
Face Perception ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Multiracial Faces

Does semantic information in the form of stereotypical names influence participants' perceptions of the appearance of multiracial faces? Asian-Australian and European-Australian participants were asked to rate the appearance of Asian-Australian faces given typically Asian names, European-Australian faces given typically European names, multiracial faces given Asian names, and multiracial faces given European names. Participants rated the multiracial faces given European names as looking significantly ‘more European’ than the same multiracial faces given Asian names. This study demonstrates how socially derived expectations and stereotypes can influence face perception.

Are Morphs a Valid Substitute for Real Multiracial Faces in Race Categorization Research?

2021 ◽  
pp. 014616722198983
Author(s):  
Debbie S. Ma ◽  
Justin Kantner ◽  
Jonathan Benitez ◽  
Stephanie Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Face Perception ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Common Method ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Multiracial Faces

The rise of the multiracial population has been met with a growing body of research examining multiracial face perception. A common method for creating multiracial face stimuli in past research has been mathematically averaging two monoracial “parent” faces of different races to create computer-generated multiracial morphs, but conclusions from research using morphs will only be accurate to the extent that morphs yield perceptual decisions similar to those that would be made with real multiracial faces. The current studies compared race classifications of real and morphed multiracial face stimuli. We found that oval-masked morphed faces were classified as multiracial significantly more often than oval-masked real multiracial faces (Studies 1 and 2), but at comparable levels to unmasked real multiracial faces (Study 2). Study 3 examined factors that could explain differences in how morphs and real multiracial faces are categorized and pointed to the potential role that unusualness/distinctiveness might play.

scholarly journals Broadening the Stimulus Set: Introducing the American Multiracial Faces Database

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Chen ◽  
Jasmine B Norman ◽  
Yeseul Nam
Keyword(s):  
Face Perception ◽  
Person Perception ◽  
Group Membership ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Racial Ambiguity ◽  
Face Stimuli ◽  
Racially Ambiguous ◽  
Multiracial Faces ◽  
Ambiguous Faces

Face-based perceptions form the basis for how people behave towards each other and, hence, are central to understanding human interaction. Studying face perception requires a large and diverse set of stimuli in order to make ecologically valid, generalizable conclusions. To date, there are no publicly available databases with a substantial number of Multiracial or racially ambiguous faces. Our systematic review of the literature on Multiracial person perception documented that published studies have relied on computer-generated faces (84% of stimuli), Black-White faces (74%), and male faces (63%). We sought to address these issues, and to broaden the diversity of available face stimuli, by creating the American Multiracial Faces Database (AMFD). The AMFD is a novel collection of 110 faces with mixed-race heritage and accompanying ratings of those faces by naive observers that are freely available to academic researchers. The faces (smiling and neutral expression poses) were rated on attractiveness, emotional expression, racial ambiguity, masculinity, racial group membership(s), gender group membership(s), warmth, competence, dominance, and trustworthiness. The large majority of the AMFD faces are racially ambiguous and can pass into at least two different racial categories. These faces will be useful to researchers seeking to study Multiracial person perception as well as those looking for racially ambiguous faces in order to study categorization processes in general. Consequently, the AMFD will be useful to a broad group of researchers who are studying face perception.

Suppressed Semantic Information Accelerates Problem Solving

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darya L. Zabelina ◽  
Emmanuel Guzman-Martinez ◽  
Laura Ortega ◽  
Marcia Grabowecky ◽  
Mark Beeman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Semantic Information

His Lordship's -ship and the King of Golfdom. Against a purely functional analysis of suffixhood

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Baeskow
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Semantic Information ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Distributed Morphology ◽  
Word Class ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Functional Elements ◽  
Grammatical Morphemes ◽  
Independent Model

For many decades there has been a consensus among linguists of various schools that derivational suffixes function not only to determine the word-class of the complex expressions they form, but also convey semantic information. The aspect of suffix-inherent meaning is ignored by representatives of a relatively new theoretical direction – Neo-Construction Grammar – who consider derivational suffixes to be either purely functional elements of the grammar or meaningless phonological realizations of abstract grammatical morphemes. The latter view is maintained by adherents of Distributed Morphology, who at the same time emphasize the importance of conceptual knowledge for derivational processes without attempting to define this aspect. The purpose of this study is first of all to provide support for the long-standing assumption that suffixes are inherently meaningful. The focus of interest is on the suffixes -ship, -dom and -hood. Data from Old English and Modern English (including neologisms) will show that these suffixes have developed rich arrays of meaning which cannot be structurally derived. Moreover, since conceptual knowledge is indeed an important factor for word-formation processes, a concrete, theory-independent model for the representation of the synchronically observable meaning components associated with -ship, -dom and -hood will be proposed.

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