Moderators of the confidence‐accuracy correlation in face recognition: The role of information processing and base‐rates
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Applied Cognitive Psychology
- Vol. 3 (2) , 95-107
- https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.2350030202
Abstract
Forty‐four undergraduates were shown one set of slides of persons in the beginning of the session and a second set of slides at the end. During the second slide presentation subjects gave recognition judgements for each slide and confidence judgements for each decision. The disguise of the to‐be‐recognized (TBR) persons was varied and the distinctiveness and attractiveness of the TBR persons were assessed. The relation between subjects' confidence judgements and their face recognition accuracy was stronger if the TBR persons were not disguised and if the TBR persons had distinctive characteristics. Attractiveness was unrelated to face recognition accuracy. Base‐rate information, which referred to the number of persons the subjects expected to recognize, affected decision criterion but had no effect on confidence judgements.This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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