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Experimental Psychology (Russia)
2018. Vol. 11, no. 4, 116–124
doi:10.17759/exppsy.2018110410
ISSN: 2072-7593 / 2311-7036 (online)

Intercultural differences in the description and identification of persons of their own and someone else’s ethnicity on the example of portrait images

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E.A. Lupenko

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Abstract

The article presents the results of a study of differences in the perception, description and identification of persons of their own and someone else’s ethnicity, represented in portrait images. The subjects were Russian and Tuvinian students. It is shown that the ethnicity of observers influences the choice of one or another way of describing the depicted characters, but does not depend on the ethnicity of the characters. Differences in the number of characteristics used in the description of the Russian and Tuvinian sample of subjects were obtained. The success of the identification of the descriptions received is generally higher in the Russian sample. The joint solution of the problem of identification (pair experiment) does not lead to an improvement in its results.

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Keywords: cross-cultural differences, ethnicity, personal identification by verbal description, portrait image of a man

Journal rubric: Social Psychology

Article type: scientific article

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17759/exppsy.2018110410

Funding. The research was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation GC 25.3916.2017/4.6.

For citation: Lupenko E.A. Intercultural differences in the description and identification of persons of their own and someone else’s ethnicity on the example of portrait images. Eksperimental'naâ psihologiâ = Experimental Psychology (Russia), 2018. Vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 116–124. DOI: 10.17759/exppsy.2018110410. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Elena A. Lupenko, PhD in Psychology, Senior Researcher, Institute of Experimental Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, Moscow, Russia, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4026-7581, e-mail: elena-lupenko@yandex.ru

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