Hemifield Memory for Attractiveness

Deblieck, Choi; Zaidel, Dahlia W.

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“…This is not what was found. Unlike the present study, previous publications from this laboratory used ordinary faces as stimuli in experiments on the functional (a)symmetry status of the face (Chen et al, 1997;Deblieck & Zaidel, 2003;Reis & Zaidel, 2001;Zaidel et al, 2003;Zaidel, et al, 1995). The previous findings revealed lateral facial organization for attractiveness, particularly in faces of women.…”

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The Face, Beauty, and Symmetry: Perceiving Asymmetry in Beautiful Faces

Zaidel

Cohen

2005

International Journal of Neuroscience

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The relationship between bilateral facial symmetry and beauty remains to be clarified. Here, straight head-on photographs of "beautiful" faces from the collections of professional modeling agencies were selected. First, beauty ratings were obtained for these faces. Then, the authors created symmetrical left-left and right-right composites of the beautiful faces and asked a new group of subjects to choose the most attractive pair member. "Same" responses were allowed. No difference between the left-left and right-right composites was revealed but significant differences were obtained between "same" and the leftleft or right-right. These results show that subjects detected asymmetry in beauty and suggest that very beautiful faces can be functionally asymmetrical.

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The Face, Beauty, and Symmetry: Perceiving Asymmetry in Beautiful Faces

Zaidel

Cohen

2005

International Journal of Neuroscience

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“…However, they have brought mixed results. Whereas some researchers reported more accurate memory for attractive stimuli (e.g., Cross et al, 1971 ; Allan et al, 2012 ; Kajimura et al, 2014 ), others found the opposite ( Light et al, 1981 ; Sarno and Alley, 1997 ; Wiese et al, 2014 ), some did not obtain a difference in memory accuracy ( Brigham, 1990 ; Wickham and Morris, 2003 ; Anderson et al, 2010 ) and others obtained a mixture of both ( Deblieck and Zaidel, 2003 ). It also seems that, compared with males, females are better at remembering same-sex faces when faces of both sexes are presented ( Rehnman and Herlitz, 2007 ; Wang, 2013 ).…”

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Always on My Mind? Recognition of Attractive Faces May Not Depend on Attention

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Little research has examined what happens to attention and memory as a whole when humans see someone attractive. Hence, we investigated whether attractive stimuli gather more attention and are better remembered than unattractive stimuli. Participants took part in an attention task – in which matrices containing attractive and unattractive male naturalistic photographs were presented to 54 females, and measures of eye-gaze location and fixation duration using an eye-tracker were taken – followed by a recognition task. Eye-gaze was higher for the attractive stimuli compared to unattractive stimuli. Also, attractive photographs produced more hits and false recognitions than unattractive photographs which may indicate that regardless of attention allocation, attractive photographs produce more correct but also more false recognitions. We present an evolutionary explanation for this, as attending to more attractive faces but not always remembering them accurately and differentially compared with unseen attractive faces, may help females secure mates with higher reproductive value.

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“…Attractiveness has been found to influence not only social judgments but also memory for faces. Research has demonstrated high facial recognition for attractive faces (Cross, Cross & Daly, 1971; Deblieck & Zaidel, 2003; Marzi & Viggiano, 2010), although other research failed to do so probably due to differences regarding characteristics of faces or methodology (Light, Hollander & Kayra‐Stuart, 1981; Wickham & Morris, 2003; Wiese, Altmann & Schweinberger, 2014). However, and based on this research, we investigated whether attractiveness influences destination memory, that is, the ability to remember to whom information was previously told (Gopie, Craik & Hasher, 2010; Gopie & Macleod, 2009; Koriat, Ben‐Zur & Sheffer, 1988).…”

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Attractive memory: High destination memory for attractive faces

Haj

Ndobo

2020

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Research has demonstrated that destination memory (i.e., the ability to remember to whom information was previously told) can be influenced by characteristics (e.g., emotional expressions and age) of the destination. Building on this literature, we investigated whether destination memory can be influenced by the attractiveness of the destination. We invited participants to give information on attractive faces, unattractive faces, or neither‐attractive‐nor‐unattractive faces. On a recognition test, they were invited to decide to whom each piece of information had been previously told. Results demonstrated higher destination memory (1) for attractive faces than for neither‐attractive‐nor‐unattractive faces, and (2) for unattractive faces than for neither‐attractive‐nor‐unattractive faces. We attribute the higher destination memory for attractive and unattractive destinations to their distinctiveness compared with neutrally attractive destinations. We also provide some attentional explanations for the high memory for attractive and unattractive destinations.

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Hemifield Memory for Attractiveness

Cited by 17 publications

References 24 publications

The Face, Beauty, and Symmetry: Perceiving Asymmetry in Beautiful Faces

The Face, Beauty, and Symmetry: Perceiving Asymmetry in Beautiful Faces

Always on My Mind? Recognition of Attractive Faces May Not Depend on Attention

Attractive memory: High destination memory for attractive faces

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