More Inaccurate But Not More Biased: Anxiety During Encoding Impairs Face Recognition Accuracy But Does Not Moderate the Own-Ethnicity Bias

G.J. Curtis; A. Russ; C. Ackland

doi:10.1002/acp.3138

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More Inaccurate But Not More Biased: Anxiety During Encoding Impairs Face Recognition Accuracy But Does Not Moderate the Own-Ethnicity Bias

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More Inaccurate But Not More Biased: Anxiety During Encoding Impairs Face Recognition Accuracy But Does Not Moderate the Own-Ethnicity Bias

G.J. Curtis, A. Russ and C. Ackland

Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol.29(4), pp.621-627

2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3138

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Abstract

Heightened state anxiety can have a deleterious impact on memory for faces. In this paper we investigated whether anxiety: (i) moderates the own-ethnicity bias (OEB) and (ii) impairs face recognition accuracy at the encoding or retrieval phase of an OEB face-recognition task. Using a typical OEB task, anxiety was induced during encoding and retrieval in Experiment 1, but only during retrieval in Experiment 2. An OEB was found in both experiments, but anxiety did not moderate the OEB in either experiment. In Experiment 1, anxious participants were poorer at face recognition for both own- and other-ethnicity faces. In Experiment 2 anxiety did not impair face recognition. Together, these studies suggest that anxiety impaired participants' encoding, but not retrieval, of faces. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Title: More Inaccurate But Not More Biased: Anxiety During Encoding Impairs Face Recognition Accuracy But Does Not Moderate the Own-Ethnicity Bias
Authors/Creators: G.J. Curtis (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
A. Russ (Author/Creator) - The University of Western Australia
C. Ackland (Author/Creator) - Western Sydney University
Publication Details: Applied Cognitive Psychology, Vol.29(4), pp.621-627
Publisher: Wiley
Identifiers: 991005544181707891
Copyright: Wiley
Murdoch Affiliation: School of Psychology and Exercise Science
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Note: Published online 4 June 2015

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Citation topics: 1 Clinical & Life Sciences; 1.7 Neuroscanning; 1.7.354 Emotion Perception
Web Of Science research areas: Psychology, Experimental
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