Enhanced memory for faces of cheaters

Mealey, Linda; Daood, Christopher; Krage, Michael

doi:10.1016/0162-3095(95)00131-x

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“…On the dichotomous yes/no measure for recognition, participants recognized more faces in this experiment than in the Mealey et al (1996) study; a mean of 29 out of 40 original faces was remembered, in contrast with 16 out of 36 in the 1996 study: Χ 2 1 = 6.2, p < .05. False alarms were low: mean = 3.5, s.e.…”

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“…The descriptions used in this experiment differed from the descriptions used in Mealey et al (1996). We attempted to standardize our descriptions so that only character varied within general occupational domains, and so that other unique features of the descriptions would not make some descriptions more memorable than others.…”

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“…The current study is a partial replication of the Mealey et al (1996) study, adding "altruists" as a fourth target category of social exchange, and it attempts to ensure that all character descriptions fit their category properly and have a similar salience. We also measured psychopathy (or cheating tendency) in order to see whether individuals scoring high on psychopathy would be better at remembering altruists than individuals scoring low on psychopathy.…”

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“…In a well-known study, Mealey, Daood, and Krage (1996) observed that participants had enhanced memory for faces that had previously been associated with descriptions of acts of cheating. There were, however, problems with the descriptions that were used in that study.…”

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“…There has been very little research on people's special ability to remember or recognize individuals who have demonstrated a willingness to cheat. Mealey, Daood, and Krage (1996) used face recognition to test people's ability to remember cheaters. They paired various pictures of faces with descriptive sentences representing the categories of cheater, trustworthy, or neutral.…”

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Do people differentially remember cheaters?

Barclay¹,

Lalumière²

2006

Hum Nat

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The evolution of reciprocal altruism probably involved the evolution of mechanisms to detect cheating and remember cheaters. In a well-known study, Mealey, Daood, and Krage (1996) observed that participants had enhanced memory for faces that had previously been associated with descriptions of acts of cheating. There were, however, problems with the descriptions that were used in that study. We sought to replicate and extend the findings of Mealey and colleagues by using more controlled descriptions and by examining the possibility of enhanced altruist recognition. We also examined whether individual differences in cheating tendencies were related to cheater and altruist recognition. In the first experiment, 164 undergraduates saw 40 faces that were paired with character descriptions representing the categories cheating, trustworthiness, altruism, or neutral, for individuals who had either low or high social status. One week later participants reported which faces they recognized from the previous week (among 80 faces). Overall, the results failed to replicate the findings of Mealey and her colleagues, as there was no enhanced memory for cheaters. In addition, there was no enhanced memory for altruists, and no effect of participants' cheating tendencies. A second experiment using a slightly different methodology produced similar results, with some evidence for enhanced memory for altruists.

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