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ERIC Number: EJ1262029
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0888-4080
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The Consistency of Superior Face Recognition Skills in Police Officers
Bate, Sarah; Frowd, Charlie; Bennetts, Rachel; Hasshim, Nabil; Portch, Emma; Murray, Ebony; Dudfield, Gavin
Applied Cognitive Psychology, v33 n5 p828-842 Sep-Oct 2019
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in people with superior face recognition skills. Yet identification of these individuals has mostly relied on criterion performance on a single attempt at a single measure of face memory. The current investigation aimed to examine the consistency of superior face recognition skills in 30 police officers, both across tests that tap into the same process and between tests that tap into different components of face processing. Overall indices of performance across related measures were found to identify different superior performers to isolated test scores. Further, different top performers emerged for target-present versus target-absent indices, suggesting that signal detection measures are the most useful indicators of performance. Finally, a dissociation was observed between superior memory and matching performance. Super-recognizer screening programmes should therefore include overall indices summarizing multiple attempts at related tests, allowing for individuals to rank highly on different (and sometimes very specific) tasks.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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