Your ethnicity influences where you look to recognize a person’s face.
The “looking pattern” with which we recognize other people varies between cultures and ethnicities, according to a study conducted by by the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and published in the journal PLoS One. Westerners look mostly in a triangular pattern, moving between the two eyes and then down to the mouth (a method, according to the authors, suited to populations whose features vary dramatically). Some Asian groups look instead at the center of the face, gathering information about the arrangement of facial features. The study also found that British-born Chinese people combined these approaches, fixating on the eyes or mouth — suggesting that facial recognition is a variable, learned behavior.
(Source: askmen.com)
