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dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-04T08:42:25Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-04T08:42:25Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/29820 | - |
dc.description | H.DIP.PSY. | en_GB |
dc.description.abstract | Recent censuses within the Maltese Islands have indicated a gradually increasing rate of immigration from African countries. For this reason, an investigation into the attitudes held by the Maltese population toward non-White individuals, as well as the potential consequences of such attitudes is progressively gaining importance. The current study sought to explore the relationship between implicit racial attitudes and other-race facial recognition, taking into consideration the severe consequences an incorrect eyewitness identification may hold. In order to investigate this relationship, a quantitative methodology was adopted, by which 30 participants who had lived in Malta for a minimum of ten years underwent two computer-based experimental tasks. The first was a standard Implicit Association Test in order to gain a measure of implicit racial attitudes, whereas the second consisted of an incidental Old/New Facial Recognition Task. Results showed a generalised own-race bias, however, no evidence of the cross-race effect for facial recognition emerged. Upon further investigation into these two measures, it appears that a relationship between the two could be seen among the participants who displayed such a cross-race effect within facial recognition. However, as this sample set was small, this relationship was not found to be statistically significant. Future investigations may choose to replicate this study using a greater sample size in order to ensure a wider variety in results and more statistical power. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Immigrants -- Malta -- Ethnic identity | en_GB |
dc.subject | Malta -- Race relations | en_GB |
dc.subject | Face perception -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Recognition (Psychology) | en_GB |
dc.title | The relationship between implicit racial attitudes and the cross-race effect | en_GB |
dc.type | higherDiploma | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.publisher.institution | University of Malta | en_GB |
dc.publisher.department | Faculty for Social Wellbeing. Department of Psychology | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | N/A | en_GB |
dc.contributor.creator | Bamber, Victoria | - |
Appears in Collections: | Dissertations - FacSoW - 2017 Dissertations - FacSoWPsy - 2017 |
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