Recognizing a missing senior citizen in relation to experience with the elderly, demographic characteristics, and personality variables

Gier, Vicki S.; Kreiner, David S.

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“…In the present study, the SAs and an accompanying video presented the Black couple either together or separately. Gier and Kreiner ( 2020 , unpublished) found no difference in recognition of the older adults whether presented together or separately using White targets, thus we did not expect to find a difference in recognition depending on whether the older adults were presented together or separately.…”

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“…Gier and Kreiner ( 2020 ) had participants view an educational video on the importance of SA before viewing a SA showing a White female. This study also produced a high overall recognition rate (70%), with even higher recognition when participants had watched the educational video (79%).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although there are a few published studies on missing older adults in mock SA, the target seniors in all of the previous studies were White (Gier, 2019 ; Gier et al, 2017 ; Gier & Kreiner, 2019 ; Gier & Kreiner, 2020 ). The present study is the first to our knowledge to investigate ability to recognize Black individuals in the context of a SA.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…An important metacognitive measurement in face recognition studies is Retrospective Confidence Judgments (RCJ). Gier and Kreiner ( 2020 ), in a SA study with a target male in his late-fifties, found high confidence for those accurately recognizing the target.…”

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“…In the present study, we investigate face recognition in the context of public alert systems intended to help locate individuals who have gone missing. Past studies on face recognition in relation to SAs have only used White targets (Gier, 2019 ; Gier & Kreiner, 2019 ; Gier & Kreiner, 2020 ; Gier, V. S., Kreiner, D. S. Recognition of a missing elderly couple in a Silver Alert (under review)); therefore, in the present study we investigated face recognition for a Black couple in a mock SA. Additionally, we tested whether wearing glasses has an effect on face recognition.…”

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Recognition for a black couple in a mock silver alert: Comparing couples presented together or separately with or without glasses

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2022

Curr Psychol

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Demographic trends indicate an increasing elderly population accompanied by an increase in the prevalence of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). These trends are likely to result in increasing numbers of elderly individuals who wander away from home or care facilities. There is limited research on the efficacy of systems for alerting the public about missing elderly individuals, such as Silver Alerts (SA). Previous research on SAs was limited to alerts featuring White senior citizens. The present study is the first to extend SA research to Black senior citizens. A sample of college students ( N = 210) viewed a mock SA along with a short video of a “missing” couple and later attempted to recognize the two individuals from a series of photos. The male and female targets were shown in the SA either together or separately and with or without glasses, and participants were shown photos with and without glasses. The results indicated no effect of whether the couple was shown together or separately, but participants were more likely to recognize the missing male without glasses when he had been shown without glasses in the SA. The female target was recognized more often when wearing glasses than when not wearing glasses, irrespective of how she had been shown in the SA. The results suggest that the appearance of the target at encoding and at recognition may affect ability to identify the target, but that such effects may depend on individual characteristics. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12144-021-02531-8.

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Recognition for a black couple in a mock silver alert: Comparing couples presented together or separately with or without glasses

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2022

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Prospective person memory and own-race bias of missing person appeals

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Mojtahedi

2024

JCP

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Purpose This study aims to examine own-race bias (ORB) in prospective person memory (PPM) and explore whether the effects of ORB were moderated by two factors that are salient to real-world missing person appeals (MPAs): the number of appeals an individual encounters and the frequency in which these appeals are encountered. Design/methodology/approach A mixed experimental design was used whereby 269 Caucasian participants studied MPAs (4 or 8 appeals) for various frequencies (once or three times), which featured both white and non-white missing individuals. Participants then completed a PPM sorting task that required them to identify missing individuals as a secondary objective. Findings ORB was not observed for prospective person memory performance, although participants did demonstrate a greater conservative bias for appeals involving different ethnicities. The main effect of number and frequency of appeals on PPM was significant, however, these variables did not moderate ORB. Research limitations/implications The current study has limitations that should be taken into consideration. There was an underrepresentation of non-white ethnicities within the sample which limits the ability to determine if ORB effects vary across ethnicities. Additionally, experimental simulations of missing person identifications still lack ecological validity and thus future innovative methods are required to study missing person identifications more realistically. Originality/value This study demonstrates that PPM performance may not be influenced by ORB effects overall as found within previous generic memory tasks, although the influence of the number and frequency of appeals presented continues to demonstrate the need to improve MPAs to maximise public facial recognition and identification of missing persons.

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Recognizing a missing senior citizen in relation to experience with the elderly, demographic characteristics, and personality variables

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Recognition for a black couple in a mock silver alert: Comparing couples presented together or separately with or without glasses

Recognition for a black couple in a mock silver alert: Comparing couples presented together or separately with or without glasses

Prospective person memory and own-race bias of missing person appeals

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