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The Influence Of Psychological Gender In Face Recognition

Posted on:2006-12-16Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:J C FuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360182972258Subject:Applied Psychology
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This article aims to investigate the influence of psychological gender in face recognition by different materials and methods. As following are the main results:1. The male-typed respond quicker to male faces, while the female-typed respond quicker to female faces. The androgynous and the undifferentiated show no significant differences with female and male faces.2. The male-typed show lower thresholds to male faces in face gender identifying task, while the female-typed show lower thresholds to female faces. The androgynous and the undifferentiated show no bias to neither.3. Female faces gain the superiority on hit rate over male faces. The undifferentiated show no bias to neither, but the androgynous show superiority for male faces in false alarm rate.4. Male faces gain more false-alarm rate across psychological gender and physiological gender.
Keywords/Search Tags:physiological gender, psychological gender, cross—race effect, cross—sex effect, thresholds
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