From Pictures to the People in Them: Averaging Within-Person Variability Leads to Face Familiarization

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dc.contributor.authorKoca, Yaren
dc.contributor.authorOriet, Chris
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-27T21:49:01Z
dc.date.available2023-06-27T21:49:01Z
dc.date.issued2022-12-05
dc.description© The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). Request permissions for this article.en_US
dc.description.abstractFamiliar faces can be confidently recognized despite sometimes radical changes in their appearance. Exposure to within-person variability—differences in facial characteristics over successive encounters—contributes to face familiarization. Research also suggests that viewers create mental averages of the different views of faces they encounter while learning them. Averaging over within-person variability is thus a promising mechanism for face familiarization. In Experiment 1, 153 Canadian undergraduates (88 female; age: M = 21 years, SD = 5.24) learned six target identities from eight different photos of each target interspersed among 32 distractor identities. Face-matching accuracy improved similarly irrespective of awareness of the target’s identity, confirming that target faces presented among distractors can be learned incidentally. In Experiment 2, 170 Canadian undergraduates (125 female; age: M = 22.6 years, SD = 6.02) were tested using a novel indirect measure of learning. The results show that viewers update a mental average of a person’s face as it becomes learned. Our findings are the first to show how averaging within-person variability over time leads to face familiarization.en_US
dc.description.authorstatusFacultyen_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.identifier.citationKoca, Y., & Oriet, C. (2023). From Pictures to the People in Them: Averaging Within-Person Variability Leads to Face Familiarization. Psychological Science, 34(2), 252–264. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221131520en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1177/09567976221131520
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10294/15963
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
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dc.titleFrom Pictures to the People in Them: Averaging Within-Person Variability Leads to Face Familiarizationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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