Gender Differences in Familiar Face Recognition and the Influence of Sociocultural Gender Inequality.

ABSTRACT: Are gender differences in face recognition influenced by familiarity and socio-cultural factors? Previous studies have reported gender differences in processing unfamiliar faces, consistently finding a female advantage and a female own-gender bias. However, researchers have recently highlighted that unfamiliar faces are processed less efficiently than familiar faces, which have more robust, invariant representations. To-date, no study has examined whether gender differences exist for familiar face recognition. The current study addressed this by using a famous faces task in a large, web-based sample of  > 2000 participants across different countries. We also sought to examine if differences varied by socio-cultural gender equality within countries. When examining raw accuracy as well when

SUBMITTER: Mishra MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6884510 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature