Race has little effect on people's ability to spot family resemblances
Monday, September 21, 2009 - 10:56
in Psychology & Sociology
Rockville, MD -- Scientists have ample evidence that individuals use a variety of cues to identify their own kin. People can also detect resemblances in families other than their own. A new study shows that their success in doing so is the same, whether or not those families are the same race as themselves.