Hills, Peter J., Pake, J. Michael, Dempsey, Jack R. and Lewis, Michael B.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5735-5318
2018.
Exploring the contribution of motivation and experience in the postpubescent own-gender bias in face recognition.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
44
(9)
, pp. 1426-1446.
10.1037/xhp0000533
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Abstract
The own-gender bias in face recognition has been hypothesized 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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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Psychology |
| Publisher: | American Psychological Association |
| ISSN: | 0096-1523 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 9 January 2018 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 5 January 2018 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Nov 2024 19:00 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107996 |
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