title: The relationship between face recognition ability and socioemotional functioning throughout adulthood.
abstract: The relationship between face recognition ability and socioemotional functioning has been widely explored. However, how aging modulates this association regarding both objective performance and subjective-perception is still neglected. Participants, aged between 18 and 81 years, performed a face memory test and completed subjective face recognition and socioemotional questionnaires. General and social anxiety, and neuroticism traits account for the individual variation in face recognition abilities during adulthood. Aging modulates these relationships because as they age, individuals that present a higher level of these traits also show low-level face recognition ability. Intriguingly, the association between depression and face recognition abilities is evident with increasing age. Overall, the present results emphasize the importance of embedding face metacognition measurement into the context of these studies and suggest that aging is an important factor to be considered, which seems to contribute to the relationship between socioemotional and face-cognitive functioning.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research & Child's Health , University of Florence , Firenze , Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Teresa
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3535-9091
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Turano
authors.affiliation: a Department of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research & Child's Health , University of Florence , Firenze , Italy.
authors.forename: Maria Pia
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Viggiano
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D005145:Face; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual / Q000502:physiology*; D010555:Personality Inventory; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Aging; face recognition ability; individual differences; personality; socioemotional functioning