Constructing a Cross-race Triad Identity Matching test

Face identification is especially prone to error when people recognize faces of a race other than their own (Malpass & Kravitz, 1969). Current publicly available tests of face-identification proficiency do not test accuracy for cross-race identification. Here, we introduce and make publicly available a cross-race test of face identification. This test consists of African American/Black and Caucasian/White stimuli, pre-screened to be sufficiently challenging to test people of varying abilities, including super-recognizers and professional forensic face examiners. Additionally, test items were selected to assure equally accurate human performance for African American/Black and Caucasian/White faces. This test addresses a long-standing need in the literature for cross-race face-identification tests that tap skills for more than a single race of faces.