title: Memory for incidentally perceived social cues: Effects on person judgment.
abstract: Dynamic face cues can be very salient, as when observing sudden shifts of gaze to a new location, or a change of expression from happy to angry. These highly salient social cues influence judgments of another person during the course of an interaction. However, other dynamic cues, such as pupil dilation, are much more subtle, affecting judgments of another person even without awareness. We asked whether such subtle, incidentally perceived, dynamic cues could be encoded in to memory and retrieved at a later time. The current study demonstrates that in some circumstances changes in pupil size in another person are indeed encoded into memory and influence judgments of that individual at a later time. Furthermore, these judgments interact with the perceived trustworthiness of the individual and the nature of the social context. The effect is somewhat variable, however, possibly reflecting individual differences and the inherent ambiguity of pupil dilation/constriction.
authors.affiliation: School of Natural Sciences & Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pawling
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.
authors.forename: Alexander J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kirkham
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Tipper
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of York, York, UK.
authors.forename: Harriet
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Over
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001364:Awareness; D003463:Cues; D005149:Facial Expression; D000066499:Facial Recognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007600:Judgment; D008568:Memory; D012938:Social Perception; D035502:Trust / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: awareness; memory; pupil size; trust