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| Title |
Always on My Mind? Recognition of Attractive Faces May Not Depend on Attention
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00053 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
André Silva, António F. Macedo, Pedro B. Albuquerque, Joana Arantes |
| Abstract |
Little research has examined what happens to attention and memory as a whole when humans see someone attractive. Hence, we investigated whether attractive stimuli gather more attention and are better remembered than unattractive stimuli. Participants took part in an attention task - in which matrices containing attractive and unattractive male naturalistic photographs were presented to 54 females, and measures of eye-gaze location and fixation duration using an eye-tracker were taken - followed by a recognition task. Eye-gaze was higher for the attractive stimuli compared to unattractive stimuli. Also, attractive photographs produced more hits and false recognitions than unattractive photographs which may indicate that regardless of attention allocation, attractive photographs produce more correct but also more false recognitions. We present an evolutionary explanation for this, as attending to more attractive faces but not always remembering them accurately and differentially compared with unseen attractive faces, may help females secure mates with higher reproductive value. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 3 | 27% |
| Japan | 1 | 9% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 6 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 82% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 46 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 46 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 10 | 22% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 20% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 9% |
| Researcher | 3 | 7% |
| Lecturer > Senior Lecturer | 2 | 4% |
| Other | 7 | 15% |
| Unknown | 11 | 24% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 23 | 50% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 4% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 7% |
| Unknown | 15 | 33% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 29. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 August 2021.
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#1,376,801
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#2,874
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#23,895
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#70
of 477 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 34,766 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 13.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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