Date: 20th March 2024
Time: 03:00PM-04:00PM
Location: DT 2203 & Online
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin U. Marsh
Abstract:
The cross-race effect (CRE), our tendency to remember racial ingroup faces more accurately than racial outgroup faces, may involve at least three factors: perceptual expertise, racial/social categorization, and motivation. In the language, culture, and cognition lab, Dr. Marsh studies how disrupting the racial categorization process moderates the CRE. This presentation will cover how the CRE is moderated by cultural priming (i.e., ethnic identity and American identity), the own-gender effect, and racially ambiguous faces. If time permits, we will also discuss literature gaps and future directions.
Bio:
Dr. Benjamin U. Marsh is a cognitive psychologist and associate professor at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. He earned his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Broadly, his research focuses on how language and culture mediate attention and memory. He is enthusiastic about creating research opportunities for undergraduates, thus spends much of his time incorporating curious students into his work and having them present the lab’s findings at local, regional, and national conferences.