Understanding gender bias in face recognition: Effects of divided attention at encoding

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 362-369

  Palmer, Matthew A ^a   Brewer, Neil ^a   Horry, Ruth ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Divided attention; Eyewitness identification; Face recognition; Own gender bias; Recollection; Remember know judgments

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CRIMINOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OFFENDER; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION; SEXISM; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CRIMINALS; CRIMINOLOGY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEXISM;

EID: 84873970466     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2013.01.009     Document Type: Article

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