title: Famous face recognition, face matching, and extraversion.
abstract: It has been previously established that extraverts who are skilled at interpersonal interaction perform significantly better than introverts on a face-specific recognition memory task. In our experiment we further investigate the relationship between extraversion and face recognition, focusing on famous face recognition and face matching. Results indicate that more extraverted individuals perform significantly better on an upright famous face recognition task and show significantly larger face inversion effects. However, our results did not find an effect of extraversion on face matching or inverted famous face recognition.
authors: a School of Psychological Sciences , University of Manchester , Manchester , UK.
authors: Karen
authors: K
authors: Lander
authors: Siddhi
authors: S
authors: Poyarekar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005120:Extraversion, Psychological; D005145:Face; D005197:Famous Persons; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Extraversion; Face inversion effect; Face matching; Famous face recognition; Individual variation