{"id":2991,"date":"2024-07-15T02:00:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/?p=2991"},"modified":"2025-02-13T13:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T11:48:47","slug":"the-own-race-bias-effect-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/the-own-race-bias-effect-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The own-race bias effect in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Researcher<\/strong>: Inonge Lupinda, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<br \/><strong>Supervisors<\/strong>: Dr Colin Tredoux, University of Cape Town and Dr Helen Robertson, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Inonge Lupinda - The own-race bias effect in South Africa.\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4BlqTxiCEiM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure><p><br \/>Face recognition is critical for human connection and perceptual ability, and mistakes in face recognition can degrade the quality of social interaction. Own-race bias (ORB) in facial recognition refers to the tendency to recognize people from one\u2019s own racial group more accurately than people from other racial groupings. This research examines the prevalence and presence of the ORB phenomena in human face recall, its various explanations, and causes, and the serious implications it has in eyewitness cross-racial identification, using a South African demographic of Black, White, and Coloured people. It explores how social inclusion or exclusion exacerbates this phenomenon, especially considering the historical context of South Africa. Embedded in ORB are social-cognitive factors such as implicit bias, racial attitudes, social motivation, and the contact hypothesis.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"724\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/nepttp.avidakizomba.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-724x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-724x1024.jpg 724w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-600x849.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-768x1086.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-1086x1536.jpg 1086w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1-1448x2048.jpg 1448w, https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Inonge-Lupinda-Capstone-project-poster-scaled-1.jpg 1810w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researcher: Inonge Lupinda, University of the Witwatersrand, JohannesburgSupervisors: Dr Colin Tredoux, University of Cape Town and Dr Helen Robertson, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg Face recognition is critical for human connection and perceptual ability, and mistakes in face recognition can degrade the quality of social interaction. Own-race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capstone-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4295,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions\/4295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escience.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}