The "face race lightness illusion": An effect of the eyes and pupils?

PLoS One · 2018 · PMC6072068 · PMID 30071065

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marginally significantp = 0.042actually significant

There was also a marginally significant main effect of Face Ethnicity, F (1, 78) = 4.29, p = 0.042 η 2 p = 0.01; the European Face’s Eyes and Nose were examined for a greater percent of time (mean dwell time = 28.0%) than those of the African Face (mean dwell time = 25.5%).

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failed to reach significancep = 0.06so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Instead, we expected this relative difference to be weaker or absent from onset or 0 ms until 2000 ms and, indeed, the mean difference score were both positive (African face: mean Dwell-time Difference = 9.00; SD = 25.5; European face: mean Dwell-time Difference = 1.04; SD = 25.4) and a paired t-tests, failed to reach significance level, t(23) = 2.03, p = 0.06.

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