The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review.
Level 5 - mechanism / opinion, no new human data
Narrative critical review of existing literature and meta-analyses without new empirical data
PubMed 40587623 · doi:10.1177/17456916251345459
What was done
The authors conducted a critical review re-evaluating literature included in recent meta-analyses on the cross-race effect (CRE; superior recognition of same-race vs. other-race faces), examining how minority-race status influences face recognition outcomes across different combinations of participant and target races.
What was found
The abstract reports no numerical data or effect sizes. The authors report that many studies evaluating non-White participants fail to demonstrate a cross-race effect, indicating that the apparent robustness of the phenomenon may be driven by research designs focusing on majority-race participants viewing minority-race target faces.
Why it matters
This review highlights a structural sampling limitation in cognitive psychology, demonstrating that the cross-race effect cannot be assumed to be universal across minority populations.
Limits
The abstract provides no quantitative metrics, statistical analyses, or participant/study counts (n is unspecified). As a narrative critical review, it does not present a new formal meta-analytic calculation.