Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition

Authors: Morgan, M. and Hills, P.J.

Journal: PLoS ONE

Volume: 14

Issue: 7

eISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209530

Abstract:

The variability in the own-gender bias (OGB) in face-recognition is thought to be based on experience and the engagement of expert face processing mechanisms for own-gender faces. Experience is also associated with personality characteristics such as extraversion and Autism, yet the effects of these variables on the own-gender bias has not been explored. We ran a face recognition study exploring the relationships between own-gender experience, holistic processing (measured using the face-inversion effect, composite face effect, and the parts-and-wholes test), personality characteristics (extraversion and Autism Quotient) and the OGB. Findings did not support a mediational account where experience increases holistic processing and this increases the OGB. Rather, there was a direct relationship between extraversion and Autism Quotient and the OGB. We interpret this as personality characteristics having an effect on the motivation to process own-gender faces more deeply than opposite-gender faces.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32497/

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Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition.

Authors: Morgan, M. and Hills, P.J.

Journal: PLoS One

Volume: 14

Issue: 7

Pages: e0209530

eISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209530

Abstract:

The variability in the own-gender bias (OGB) in face-recognition is thought to be based on experience and the engagement of expert face processing mechanisms for own-gender faces. Experience is also associated with personality characteristics such as extraversion and Autism, yet the effects of these variables on the own-gender bias has not been explored. We ran a face recognition study exploring the relationships between own-gender experience, holistic processing (measured using the face-inversion effect, composite face effect, and the parts-and-wholes test), personality characteristics (extraversion and Autism Quotient) and the OGB. Findings did not support a mediational account where experience increases holistic processing and this increases the OGB. Rather, there was a direct relationship between extraversion and Autism Quotient and the OGB. We interpret this as personality characteristics having an effect on the motivation to process own-gender faces more deeply than opposite-gender faces.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32497/

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Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition

Authors: Morgan, M. and Hills, P.J.

Journal: PLOS ONE

Volume: 14

Issue: 7

ISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209530

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32497/

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Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition.

Authors: Morgan, M. and Hills, P.J.

Journal: PloS one

Volume: 14

Issue: 7

Pages: e0209530

eISSN: 1932-6203

ISSN: 1932-6203

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209530

Abstract:

The variability in the own-gender bias (OGB) in face-recognition is thought to be based on experience and the engagement of expert face processing mechanisms for own-gender faces. Experience is also associated with personality characteristics such as extraversion and Autism, yet the effects of these variables on the own-gender bias has not been explored. We ran a face recognition study exploring the relationships between own-gender experience, holistic processing (measured using the face-inversion effect, composite face effect, and the parts-and-wholes test), personality characteristics (extraversion and Autism Quotient) and the OGB. Findings did not support a mediational account where experience increases holistic processing and this increases the OGB. Rather, there was a direct relationship between extraversion and Autism Quotient and the OGB. We interpret this as personality characteristics having an effect on the motivation to process own-gender faces more deeply than opposite-gender faces.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32497/

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Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition.

Authors: Morgan, M. and Hills, P.J.

Journal: PLoS One

Volume: 14

Issue: 7

ISSN: 1932-6203

Abstract:

The variability in the own-gender bias (OGB) in face-recognition is thought to be based on experience and the engagement of expert face processing mechanisms for own-gender faces. Experience is also associated with personality characteristics such as extraversion and Autism, yet the effects of these variables on the own-gender bias has not been explored. We ran a face recognition study exploring the relationships between own-gender experience, holistic processing (measured using the face-inversion effect, composite face effect, and the parts-and-wholes test), personality characteristics (extraversion and Autism Quotient) and the OGB. Findings did not support a mediational account where experience increases holistic processing and this increases the OGB. Rather, there was a direct relationship between extraversion and Autism Quotient and the OGB. We interpret this as personality characteristics having an effect on the motivation to process own-gender faces more deeply than opposite-gender faces.

https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/32497/

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