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Effects of time pressure and time passage on face-matching accuracy

Fysh, Matthew C., Bindemann, Markus (2017) Effects of time pressure and time passage on face-matching accuracy. Royal Society Open Science, 4 . pp. 1-13. ISSN 2054-5703. (doi:10.1098/rsos.170249) (KAR id:62243)

Abstract

This study investigated the impact of time pressure on matching accuracy with face pairs that combined photographs from student ID cards with high-quality person portraits, and under conditions that provided infrequent identity mismatches. Time pressure was administered via two onscreen displays that observers could use to adjust the amount of time that was allocated to a given trial while completing a block of trials within a required timeframe. Under these conditions, observers matched faces under time pressure that varied from 10 to 2 s (Experiment 1) and 8 to 2 s (Experiment 2). An effect of time pressure was found in each experiment, whereby performance deteriorated under time targets of 4s. Additionally, a match response bias emerged consistently across blocks, and indicated that separately to time pressure, performance also deteriorated due to time passage. These results therefore indicate that both time passage and pressure exert detrimental effects on face matching.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1098/rsos.170249
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Markus Bindemann
Date Deposited: 10 Jul 2017 11:01 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Dec 2022 03:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/62243 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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