Dr Daniel Levin, a psychologist at Kent State University in Ohio, said the inability to recognise faces of people from another race is usually explained by saying that people have less experience of seeing them. His study shows the problem is not that we cannot identify the details, it is that we don't pay attention to them.The gently-worded wire story goes on to suggest that whites do significantly worse at recognition than Blacks (it's unfortunate that other groups don't seem to have been included). This is the psychology of racism folks -- do you recognize yourself in this story? Dr. Levin has published a page summarizing his face categories research.
Dr Daniel Levin, a psychologist
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