The How’s and Why’s of Face Memory: Level of Construal Influences the Recognition of Human Faces

Three experiments investigated the influence of level of construal (i.e., the interpretation of actions in terms of their meaning or their details) on different stages of face memory. We employed a standard multiple-face recognition paradigm, with half of the faces inverted at test. Construal level...

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Main Authors: Natalie eWyer, Timothy John Hollins, Sabine ePahl, Jean eRoper
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01524/full