An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account

© 2019 The British Psychological Society The own-age bias (OAB) is suggested to be caused by perceptual-expertise and/or social-cognitive mechanisms. Bryce and Dodson (2013, Psychology and Aging, 28, 87, Exp 2) provided support for the social-cognitive account, demonstrating an OAB for participants...

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Main Authors: Cronin, Sophie L., Craig, Belinda, Lipp, Ottmar
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: WILEY 2019
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Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101540
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79164
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Craig, Belinda
Lipp, Ottmar
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Lipp, Ottmar
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description © 2019 The British Psychological Society The own-age bias (OAB) is suggested to be caused by perceptual-expertise and/or social-cognitive mechanisms. Bryce and Dodson (2013, Psychology and Aging, 28, 87, Exp 2) provided support for the social-cognitive account, demonstrating an OAB for participants who encountered a mixed-list of own- and other-age faces, but not for participants who encountered a pure-list of only own- or other-age faces. They proposed that own-age/other-age categorization, and the resulting OAB, only emerge when age is made salient in the mixed-list condition. Our study aimed to replicate this finding using methods typically used to investigate the OAB to examine their robustness and contribution to our understanding of how the OAB forms. Across three experiments that removed theoretically unimportant components of the original paradigm, varied face sex, and included background scenes, the OAB emerged under both mixed-list and pure-list conditions. These results are more consistent with a perceptual-expertise than social-cognitive account of the OAB, but may suggest that manipulating age salience using mixed-list and pure-list presentations is not sufficient to alter categorization processes.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-791642022-08-18T08:34:29Z An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account Cronin, Sophie L. Craig, Belinda Lipp, Ottmar Social Sciences Psychology, Multidisciplinary Psychology face memory face recognition own-age bias perceptual-expertise social cognition FACE RECOGNITION RACE CATEGORIZATION MEMORY INDIVIDUATION EXPERIENCE IDENTIFICATION EXPRESSIONS DATABASE MODEL © 2019 The British Psychological Society The own-age bias (OAB) is suggested to be caused by perceptual-expertise and/or social-cognitive mechanisms. Bryce and Dodson (2013, Psychology and Aging, 28, 87, Exp 2) provided support for the social-cognitive account, demonstrating an OAB for participants who encountered a mixed-list of own- and other-age faces, but not for participants who encountered a pure-list of only own- or other-age faces. They proposed that own-age/other-age categorization, and the resulting OAB, only emerge when age is made salient in the mixed-list condition. Our study aimed to replicate this finding using methods typically used to investigate the OAB to examine their robustness and contribution to our understanding of how the OAB forms. Across three experiments that removed theoretically unimportant components of the original paradigm, varied face sex, and included background scenes, the OAB emerged under both mixed-list and pure-list conditions. These results are more consistent with a perceptual-expertise than social-cognitive account of the OAB, but may suggest that manipulating age salience using mixed-list and pure-list presentations is not sufficient to alter categorization processes. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79164 10.1111/bjop.12435 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101540 WILEY fulltext
spellingShingle Social Sciences
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Psychology
face memory
face recognition
own-age bias
perceptual-expertise
social cognition
FACE RECOGNITION
RACE
CATEGORIZATION
MEMORY
INDIVIDUATION
EXPERIENCE
IDENTIFICATION
EXPRESSIONS
DATABASE
MODEL
Cronin, Sophie L.
Craig, Belinda
Lipp, Ottmar
An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account
title An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account
title_full An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account
title_fullStr An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account
title_full_unstemmed An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account
title_short An own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: No evidence for the social-cognitive account
title_sort own-age bias in mixed- and pure-list presentations: no evidence for the social-cognitive account
topic Social Sciences
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Psychology
face memory
face recognition
own-age bias
perceptual-expertise
social cognition
FACE RECOGNITION
RACE
CATEGORIZATION
MEMORY
INDIVIDUATION
EXPERIENCE
IDENTIFICATION
EXPRESSIONS
DATABASE
MODEL
url http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP150101540
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79164