Exploration of the Links Between Psychosocial Well-being and Face Recognition Skills in a French-Speaking Sample.

ABSTRACT: Face recognition abilities vary tremendously in the general population. People at the lower end of the spectrum, those with developmental prosopagnosia, report stress, anxiety or social interaction issues due to their poor face recognition abilities. It is thus important to develop adequate diagnostic tools convenient to use for clinicians and to examine relationships between face recognition skills and negative affects. In the present study, we provide a validated French translation of the 20-item prosopagnosia index (PI20), a self-report measure used to detect people with developmental facial identity recognition deficits (Shah et al., 2015; Tsantani et al., 2021). We also examined links between face recognition skills measured with the PI20 and a standard face recognition test (Cambridg

SUBMITTER: Nigrou T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11378709 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature