1. Assessing the influence of recollection and familiarity in memory for own- versus other-race faces.
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Marcon JL, Susa KJ, and Meissner CA
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- Attention, Discrimination Learning, Emotions, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Male, Retention, Psychology, Young Adult, Black or African American psychology, Face, Hispanic or Latino psychology, Identification, Psychological, Mental Recall, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Recognition, Psychology
- Abstract
In the present research, we examined the contributions of recollection and familiarity in memory for own- and other-race faces. In Experiment 1, we used a repetition lag paradigm (Jennings & Jacoby, 1997) to demonstrate the typical cross-race effect with respect to discrimination accuracy and response bias. Participants were more likely to commit repetition errors by falsely recognizing repeated other-race faces. In Experiment 2, we used process-dissociation equations to estimate differences in recollection and familiarity. As predicted, results showed a greater reliance on recollection-based processing for own-race faces. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.
- Published
- 2009
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