“…Missing person appeals are also increasingly distributed through social media, which allows multiple photographs to be included and presented sequentially (Solymosi, Petcu, & Wilkinson, 2020). Although less discussed in face learning studies, learning stimuli (e.g., nonsense words, word pairs) using a distributed sequence results in better recognition (Russo, Mammarella, & Avons, 2002;Wogalter, Jarrard, & Cayard, 1991). Therefore, we used a distributed presentation of target images during the familiarization phase of our experiment.…”