Hills, P., Pake, J.M., Dempsey, J.R. and Lewis, M.B., 2018. Exploring the contribution of motivation and experience in the post-pubescent own-gender bias in face recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 44 (9), 1426-1446.
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DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000533
Abstract
The own-gender bias in face recognition has been hypothesised to be the result of extensive experience with own-gender faces, coupled with a motivation to process own-group faces more deeply than other-group faces. We test the effect of experience and motivation in four experiments employing standard old/new recognition paradigms. In Experiment 1, no own-gender recognition bias was observed following an attractiveness-rating encoding task regardless of school type (single- or mixed-sex). Experiment 2, which used a distinctiveness-rating encoding task, did find a significant own-gender bias for all groups of participants. Experiment 3 on adults found that the own-gender bias was not affected by self-reported contact with the other-gender, but the encoding task did moderate the size of the bias. Experiment 4 revealed that participants with an own-gender sexual orientation showed a stronger own-gender bias. These results indicate that motivational factors influence the own-gender bias whereas no evidence was found for perceptual experience.
Item Type: | Article |
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ISSN: | 0096-1523 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | own-gender bias; own-group biases; face recognition; experience; motivation |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 30586 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 17 Apr 2018 14:28 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:10 |
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