original_query: What is the cross-race effect and how does it relate to the recognition and identification of other-race faces?
query: What is the cross-race effect and how does it relate to the recognition and identification of other-race faces?
answer: The cross-race effect is the tendency to more easily recognize faces from one's own racial group.  This leads to difficulties in recognizing and identifying faces of other races, as people tend to perceive members of other races as more similar to each other than members of their own race.