Search efforts and face recognition: the role of expectations of encounter and within-person variability in prospective person memory

Abstract People perform poorly at sighting missing and wanted persons in simulated searches due to attention and face recognition failures. We manipulated participants’ expectations of encountering a target person and the within-person variability of the targets’ photographs studied in a laboratory-...

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Published in:	Cognitive Research
Main Authors:	Kara N. Moore, Blake L. Nesmith, Dara U. Zwemer, Chenxin Yu
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SpringerOpen 2024-09-01
Subjects:	Prospective person memory Within-person variability Missing persons Wanted persons Attention Prospective memory
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-024-00590-6