Individual differences in personality and face identification

Megreya, Ahmed M.; Bindemann, Markus

doi:10.1080/20445911.2012.739153

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“…However it may be that our measure of personality (TIPI) is not detailed enough to provide a good measure of anxiety, which is a facet of neuroticism (synonymous with emotional stability in the TIPI scale). Furthermore, this correlation was only found for female participants (Megreya & Bindemann, 2013). Later analysis of our results, found a significant difference between males and females in terms of emotional stability, t(98) = 2.21, p = .03, but neither group correlated with matching ability.…”

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Famous face recognition, face matching, and extraversion

Lander

Poyarekar

2015

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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It has been previously established that extraverts who are skilled at interpersonal interaction perform significantly better than introverts on a face-specific recognition memory task. In our experiment we further investigate the relationship between extraversion and face recognition, focusing on famous face recognition and face matching. Results indicate that more extraverted individuals perform significantly better on an upright famous face recognition task and show significantly larger face inversion effects. However, our results did not find an effect of extraversion on face matching or inverted famous face recognition.

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Famous face recognition, face matching, and extraversion

Lander

Poyarekar

2015

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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“…More recent results (Lander & Poyarekar, 2015) suggest that extraversion may be more closely associated with famous face recognition in particular, but largely support the proposal that extraverts are more effective at face recognition than introverts. In related work, Davis et al (2011) and Megreya & Bindemann (2013) reported that lower levels of social anxiety were associated with better face recognition performance. In the latter study, the authors suggest that the effects of personality on face recognition are limited to traits related to neuroticism, which is contrary to the aforementioned results suggesting that extraversion may also influence face recognition ability.…”

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Hometown size affects the processing of naturalistic face variability

Balas

Saville

2017

Vision Research

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Face exposure during development determines adults' abilities to recognize faces and the information they use to process them. Individual differences in the face categories represented in the visual environment can lead to category-specific deficits for recognizing faces that are atypical of observer's experience (e.g. the other-race effect). But what happens when observers have limited opportunities to learn about faces in general? In previous work, we found that observers from depopulated areas have poorer face recognition performance than observers from larger communities, suggesting that impoverished face experience limits face processing broadly. Here, we further investigate this phenomenon by examining how hometown size impacts the ability to assess appearance variability in natural images of faces and bodies. We asked individuals from small and large communities to complete (1) an unconstrained card-sorting task designed to test observers' ability to categorize within-person and between-person appearance variability properly, and (2) the Cambridge Face Memory Test. For both tasks, we examined the direct comparison between groups as well as the relationship between CFMT scores and sorting performance as a function of face experience. We find that small-town observers perform more poorly on the CFMT, but exhibit both better and worse performance than large-town observers on different aspects of the card-sorting task. Further, we also examine the relationship between CFMT performance and card-sorting errors. Our results suggest that individual differences in lifetime face exposure induce important variation in face processing abilities.

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“…Yet, there are large individual differences in the ability to recognise (Bowles et al, 2009; Russell, Duchaine & Nakayama, 2009) and perceive (Megreya & Bindemann, 2013; Megreya & Burton, 2006) faces, and particular difficulties are associated with the processing of unfamiliar facial stimuli (see Hancock, Bruce & Burton, 2000 for a review). For instance, over 80 trials, Bruce et al (1999) asked participants to select a face from an array of 10 that matched the identity of a target face.…”

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Super‐recognisers in Action: Evidence from Face‐matching and Face Memory Tasks

Bobak

Hancock

Bate

2015

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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SummaryIndividuals employed in forensic or security settings are often required to compare faces of ID holders to document photographs, or to recognise the faces of suspects in closed‐circuit television footage. It has long been established that both tasks produce a high error rate amongst typical perceivers. This study sought to determine the performance of individuals with exceptionally good face memory (‘super‐recognisers’) on applied facial identity matching and memory tasks. In experiment 1, super‐recognisers were significantly better than controls when matching target faces to simultaneously presented line‐ups. In experiment 2, super‐recognisers were also better at recognising faces from video footage. These findings suggest that super‐recognisers are more accurate at face matching and face memory tasks than typical perceivers, and they could be valuable expert employees in national security and forensic settings. © 2015 The Authors Applied Cognitive Psychology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Individual differences in personality and face identification

Cited by 49 publications

References 40 publications

Famous face recognition, face matching, and extraversion

Famous face recognition, face matching, and extraversion

Hometown size affects the processing of naturalistic face variability

Super‐recognisers in Action: Evidence from Face‐matching and Face Memory Tasks

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