FlashReportCross-group recognition bias generalizes to diverse non-face representations of digital identity
Highlights
► Cross-group recognition bias extends to non-face representations of digital identity. ► Two studies demonstrate this with pictorial representations of digital identity. ► Study 3 demonstrates this with written verbal representations of digital identity. ► We document a novel dynamic on the technological frontier of human communication. ► Current models of recognition bias need modification to account for this result.
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Empirical assessment
In three studies, we assessed the potential for cross-group recognition bias using non-face representations of identity taken from the Internet. In Study 1, we examined cross-group recognition bias with non-face pictorial representations of digital identity. In Study 2, we compared cross-group recognition bias between non-face pictorial representations of digital identity and facial representations of identity. In Study 3, we examined cross-group recognition bias with written verbal
Discussion
In three studies using two types of non-face representations of digital identity, we observed better recognition of ingroup representations of identity than of outgroup representations of identity. In Studies 1 and 2 we observed this recognition bias with non-face pictorial representations of digital identity. In Study 3, we observed this bias with written verbal representations of digital identity. Interestingly, both within Study 2 and, descriptively, across all three studies, the magnitude
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