There Is No Cross-Race Effect in Racially Ambiguous Faces, Except When One’s Racial Identity Is Made Salient

Making ones racial identity salient may alter criteria used to categorize racially ambiguous faces as out-group faces. However, making ones American identity salient may alter criteria used to categorize racially unambiguous faces as important to encode. Implications these findings have on our understanding of the cross-race effect will be discussed.