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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Tess de La Mare

Difficulty remembering faces of different ethnicities not down to racism – study

The fact that humans struggle to remember faces of people from different ethnic groups is down to processes deep within the brain rather than a learned social bias, according to new research.

A study dating back to the 1960s, and replicated many times since, has proven that people find it difficult to recall if they have seen a person from a different race before.

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