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Memory for faces and voices varies as a function of sex and expressed emotion
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Biological psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4420-2216
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Cognitive psychology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8771-6818
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Cognitive psychology.
Stockholm University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Psychology, Biological psychology.
2017 (English)In: PLOS ONE, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 12, no 6, article id e0178423Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We investigated how memory for faces and voices (presented separately and in combination) varies as a function of sex and emotional expression (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, and neutral). At encoding, participants judged the expressed emotion of items in forced-choice tasks, followed by incidental Remember/Know recognition tasks. Results from 600 participants showed that accuracy (hits minus false alarms) was consistently higher for neutral compared to emotional items, whereas accuracy for specific emotions varied across the presentation modalities (i.e., faces, voices, and face-voice combinations). For the subjective sense of recollection (“remember” hits), neutral items received the highest hit rates only for faces, whereas for voices and face-voice combinations anger and fear expressions instead received the highest recollection rates. We also observed better accuracy for items by female expressers, and own-sex bias where female participants displayed memory advantage for female faces and face-voice combinations. Results further suggest that own-sex bias can be explained by recollection, rather than familiarity, rates. Overall, results show that memory for faces and voices may be influenced by the expressions that they carry, as well as by the sex of both items and participants. Emotion expressions may also enhance the subjective sense of recollection without enhancing memory accuracy.

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2017. Vol. 12, no 6, article id e0178423
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face, face recognition, memory, emotions, fear, happiness, attention, vocalization
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Psychology
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Psychology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-143846DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0178423ISI: 000402611800051OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-143846DiVA, id: diva2:1104957
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This research was supported by the Swedish Research Council awarded to PL (2012-801).

Available from: 2017-06-02 Created: 2017-06-02 Last updated: 2022-02-28Bibliographically approved

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