Evidence for a contact-based explanation of the own-age bias in face recognition

Harrison, Virginia; Hole, G

doi:10.3758/pbr.16.2.264

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“…The causes that may underlie these age-of-poser effects, and the between-rater variations therein, remain to be investigated in future studies. Possible factors may be characteristics of both the poser (such as facial structures, skin texture, or ability to follow the multi-stage instructions used in the creation of the stimulus material) and/or the rater (such as subjective theories about emotional experiences in men and women of different ages, or differences in the amount of contact with different age groups; Harrison & Hole, 2009).…”

Section: Age Of Poser Matters Toomentioning

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Beyond “happy, angry, or sad?”: Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception

Riediger¹,

Voelkle²,

Ebner³

et al. 2011

Cognition and Emotion

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Section: Age Of Poser Matters Toomentioning

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Beyond “happy, angry, or sad?”: Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception

Riediger¹,

Voelkle²,

Ebner³

et al. 2011

Cognition and Emotion

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“…Empirical evidence suggests that people are better at recognizing and interpreting faces by individuals who are similar to themselves than individuals who are dissimilar (Anastasi & Rhodes, 2005;Armony & Sergerie, 2007;Dehon & Brédart, 2001;Ebner & Johnson, 2009;Elfenbein & Ambady, 2003;Harrison & Hole, 2009;He et al, 2011). Several mechanisms to explain these in-group effects have been proposed, such as better knowledge of individuals belonging to a group with which one self-identifies, or a higher motivation to attend to, and process, the appearances of such individuals.…”

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“…Research on face recognition (Anastasi & Rhodes, 2005;Bäck-man, 1991;Harrison & Hole, 2009;He, Ebner, & Johnson, 2011;Isaacowitz et al, 2007) and emotion recognition (Ebner & Johnson, 2009;Ruffman, Henry, Livingstone, & Phillips, 2008;Suzuki, Hoshino, Shigemasu, & Kawamura, 2007) has repeatedly shown that young adults perform better than older adults. This has been explained in terms of age-related differences in cognitive, neurobiological, and/or socioenvironmental factors (cf.…”

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Let me guess how old you are: Effects of age, gender, and facial expression on perceptions of age.

Voelkle¹,

Ebner²,

Lindenberger³

et al. 2012

Psychology and Aging

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Perceptions of age influence how we evaluate, approach, and interact with other people. Based on a paramorphic human judgment model, the present study investigates possible determinants of accuracy and bias in age estimation across the adult life span. For this purpose, 154 young, middle-aged, and older participants of both genders estimated the age of 171 faces of young, middle-aged, and older men and women, portrayed on a total of 2,052 photographs. Each face displayed either an angry, fearful, disgusted, happy, sad, or neutral expression (FACES database;Ebner, Riediger, & Lindenberger, 2010). We found that age estimation ability decreased with age. Older and young adults, however, were more accurate and less biased in estimating the age of members of their own as compared with those of the other age group. In contrast, no reliable own-gender advantage was observed. Generally, the age of older faces was more difficult to estimate than the age of younger faces. Furthermore, facial expressions had a substantial impact on accuracy and bias of age estimation. Relative to other facial expressions, the age of neutral faces was estimated most accurately, while the age of faces displaying happy expressions was most likely underestimated. Results are discussed in terms of methodological and practical implications for research on age estimation.

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“…One reason for floor and ceiling effects potentially is the use of age-inappropriate stimuli. Given that the own-age bias exists in face perception, in which participants show a larger FIE for own-age than other-age faces (Anastasi & Rhodes, 2005;Harrison & Hole, 2009;Hills & Lewis, 2011;Kuefner, Macchi Cassia, Picozzi, & Bricolo, 2008), 5 in order to avoid floor effects, faces should be age-matched to the participants. In adults, the processing of other-group faces has been theoretically linked to not using the most expert configural processing system (Hugenberg & Corneille, 2009;Michel, Rossion, Han, Chung, & Caldara, 2006), which lowers performance in such tasks.…”

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The development of face expertise: Evidence for a qualitative change in processing

Hills

Lewis

2018

Cognitive Development

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There is conflicting evidence regarding the development of expert face recognition, as indexed by the face-inversion effect (FIE; de Heering, Rossion, & Maurer, 2011;Young and Bion, 1981) potentially due to the nature of the stimuli used in previous research. The developmental trajectory of the FIE was assessed in participants aged between 5-and 18-years using age-matched and adult stimuli. Four experiments demonstrated that upright face recognition abilities improved linearly with age (presumably due to improved memory storage capacities) and this was larger than for inverted faces. The FIE followed a stepped function, with no FIE for participants younger than 9-years of age. These results indicate maturation of expert face processing mechanisms that occur at the age of 10-years, similar to expertise in other domains.

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Evidence for a contact-based explanation of the own-age bias in face recognition

Cited by 127 publications

References 33 publications

Beyond “happy, angry, or sad?”: Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception

Beyond “happy, angry, or sad?”: Age-of-poser and age-of-rater effects on multi-dimensional emotion perception

Let me guess how old you are: Effects of age, gender, and facial expression on perceptions of age.

The development of face expertise: Evidence for a qualitative change in processing

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