Alenezi, Hamood, Bindemann, Markus, Fysh, Matthew C., Johnston, Robert A. (2015) Face matching in a long task: Enforced rest breaks and desk-switching cannot maintain identification accuracy. PeerJ, . pp. 1-18. ISSN 2167-8359. (doi:10.7717/peerj.1184) (KAR id:53147)
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Abstract
In face matching, observers have to decide whether two photographs depict the same person or different people. This task is not only remarkably difficult but accuracy declines further during prolonged testing. The current study investigated whether this decline in long tasks can be eliminated with regular rest-breaks (Experiment 1) or room-switching (Experiment 2). Both experiments replicated the accuracy decline for long face-matching tasks and showed that this could not be eliminated with rest or room-switching. These findings suggest that person identification in applied settings, such as passport control, might be particularly error-prone due to the long and repetitive nature of the task. The experiments also show that it is difficult to counteract these problems.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.7717/peerj.1184 |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Markus Bindemann |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2015 10:51 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:31 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/53147 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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