title: Gender and appearance accuracy: Women's advantage over men is restricted to dress items.
abstract: Which aspects of people's appearance do women remember better than men? Women were predicted to remember the dress-related items but not the physical characteristics of targets more accurately than men, given that the former might be a more female-relevant domain of interest among perceivers. Participants watched a videotaped target and then completed a surprise test of their memory for her/his appearance. Men were as accurate as women at remembering the target's physical features but less accurate than woman at recalling what the target was wearing. Discussion focuses on the implications of these findings for eyewitness accuracy.
authors.affiliation: a University of Michigan, Flint.
authors.forename: Terrence Glenn
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Horgan
authors.affiliation: a University of Michigan, Flint.
authors.forename: Marianne Patricia
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: McGrath
authors.affiliation: a University of Michigan, Flint.
authors.forename: Carl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bastien
authors.affiliation: a University of Michigan, Flint.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wegman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003020:Clothing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012938:Social Perception; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Appearance accuracy; dress; gender; memory; physical features