Sex differences in social memory tasks.

Witryol, Sam L.; Kaess, Walter

doi:10.1037/h0043411

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“…This result has been reported by Witryol and Kaess (1957). It has also been noted by the present investigators in several unpublished studies of face recognition.…”

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confidence: 77%

Visual recognition memory for complex configurations

Goldstein

Chance

1971

Perception & Psychophysics

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“…This result has been reported by Witryol and Kaess (1957). It has also been noted by the present investigators in several unpublished studies of face recognition.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 77%

Visual recognition memory for complex configurations

Goldstein

Chance

1971

Perception & Psychophysics

175

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“…Other studies also show a cross-gender effect in adults with female participants showing better recognition of learned female faces relative to their recognition of learned male faces, and male participants showing better recognition of learned male faces relative to their recognition of learned female faces (McKelvie, 1987; McKelvie, Standing, St. Jean, & Law, 1993; Witryol & Kaess, 1957; Wright & Sladden, 2003). It is, thus, also possible that the cross-gender effect seen in the present study is a precursor to the adult phenomenon.…”

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confidence: 91%

An inner face advantage in children’s recognition of familiar peers

Anzures

Wang

et al. 2008

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Children's recognition of familiar own-age peers was investigated. Four-, 8-, and 14-year-old Chinese children were asked to identify their classmates from photographs showing the entire face, the internal facial features only, the external facial features only, or the eyes, nose, or mouth only. Participants from all age groups were familiar with the faces used as stimuli for one academic year. The results showed that children from all age groups demonstrated an advantage for recognition of the internal facial features relative to their recognition of the external facial features. Previous observations of a shift in reliance from external to internal facial features can, thus, be attributed to experience with faces rather than to age-related changes in face processing.Faces are one of the most important classes of visual stimuli in one's social life. Faces contain socially relevant information, some of which are relatively permanent and stable (i.e., "face traits"), such as gender, race, and identity, while others are dynamic and transient (i.e., "face states"), such as gaze and emotion (Freire & Lee, 2003).A review of the literature on the development of face trait processing shows that the majority of studies focus on the processing of configural information (i.e., the spacing between facial features) due to the controversial encoding switch hypothesis Flin, 1985). This hypothesis proposes a shift in reliance from isolated features among young children to a later reliance on configural information among older children. Earlier studies specifically found that young children rely more on isolated features such as paraphernalia (e.g., clothing, or presence of hat or glasses) in their recognition of faces . Other studies, however, have found Address Correspondence to: Gizelle Anzures, Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, OISE/University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1V6, e-mail: gizelle.anzures@utoronto.ca. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript limited susceptibility to paraphernalia when paraphernalia was included with the target stimulus and with facial stimuli at test (Baenninger, 1994), or when featural rather than configural changes to faces are made (Freire & Lee, 2001). Despite the controversy over the timing of its initial emergence (Baenninger, 1994;Freire & Lee, 2001;McKone & Boyer, 2006;Pellicano, Rhodes, & Peters, 2006), studies have found that adult-like sensitivity to face configural information takes ...

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“…For example, some studies reported that female participants were better at facial recognition than were males (e.g., (Going & Read, 1974;Witryol & Kaess, 1957;Yarmey, 1974). Moreover, two studies found females reliably better in recognizing other women whereas males recognized men and women faces equally (Cross, et al, 1971;McKelvie, 1987).…”

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Hemifield Memory for Attractiveness

Deblieck

Zaidel

2003

International Journal of Neuroscience

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In order to determine whether or not facial attractiveness plays a role in hemispheric facial memory, 35 right-handed participants first assigned attractiveness ratings to faces and then performed a recognition test on those faces in the left visual half-field (LVF) and right visual half-field (RVF). We found significant interactions between the experimental factors and visual half-field. There were significant differences in the extreme ends of the rating scale, that is, the very unattractive versus the very attractive faces: Female participants remembered very attractive faces of both women and men, with memory being superior in the RVF than in the LVF. In contrast, the male participants remembered very unattractive faces of both women and men; RVF memory was better than the LVF for women faces while for men faces memory was superior in the LVF. The interactions with visual half-field suggest that hemispheric biases in remembering faces are influenced by degree of attractiveness.

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Sex differences in social memory tasks.

Cited by 57 publications

References 6 publications

Visual recognition memory for complex configurations

Visual recognition memory for complex configurations

An inner face advantage in children’s recognition of familiar peers

Hemifield Memory for Attractiveness

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