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

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  • Mia Morgan
  • Peter J Hills

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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.

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  • Mia Morgan & Peter J Hills, 2019. "Correlations between holistic processing, Autism quotient, extraversion, and experience and the own-gender bias in face recognition," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(7), pages 1-19, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0209530
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0209530
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