The Efficiency of Demography in Face Perception.
Age perception
Face perception
First impressions
Gender perception
Race perception
Journal
Attention, perception & psychophysics
ISSN: 1943-393X
Titre abrégé: Atten Percept Psychophys
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101495384
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2021
Nov 2021
Historique:
accepted:
06
07
2021
pubmed:
25
8
2021
medline:
29
10
2021
entrez:
24
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
When we look at a face, we cannot help but "read" it: Beyond simply processing its identity, we also form robust impressions of both transient psychological states (e.g., surprise) and stable character traits (e.g., trustworthiness). But perhaps the most fundamental traits we extract from faces are their social demographics, for example, race, age, and gender. How much exposure is required to extract such properties? Curiously, despite extensive work on the temporal efficiency of extracting both higher-level social properties (such as competence and dominance) and more basic characteristics (such as identity and familiarity), this question remains largely unexplored for demography. We correlated observers' percepts of the race/age/gender of unfamiliar faces viewed at several brief durations (and then masked) with their judgments after unlimited exposure. Performance reached asymptote by 100 ms, was above chance by only 33.33 ms, and had a similar temporal profile to detecting faces in the first place. This was true even when the property to be reported wasn't revealed until after the face had disappeared, and when the faces were matched for several lower-level visual properties. Collectively, these results demonstrate that the extraction of demographic features from faces is highly efficient, and can truly be done at a glance.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34427904
doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02351-9
pii: 10.3758/s13414-021-02351-9
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
3104-3117Subventions
Organisme : Office of Naval Research
ID : N00014-16-1-2007
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.
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