Women's own-gender bias in face recognition memory: The role of attention at encoding

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 333-340

  Lovén, Johanna ^a   Herlitz, Agneta ^a   Rehnman, Jenny ^a  

^a AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attention; Episodic memory; Face recognition; Own gender bias; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECOGNITION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SWEDEN; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; SWEDEN; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960193285     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169/a000100     Document Type: Article

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