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In two experiments, subjects were required to make various decisions about photographs of faces and were then given an unannounced recognition test. The deep processing decision involved a personality trait (e.g., generosity), another task involved an attribute solely deter- mined by some physical feature of the face (e.g., height of forehead), while the third type of judgment involved a physical attribute of the body rather than the face alone (e.g., weight). In Experiment 1, subjects who had 15 sec per face during study performed better on the recognition test than subjects who had 5 sec, but there was no Rate by Task interaction. In both experiments, the Face condition showed fewer hits and lower d’ than the Body and Deep groups, but there was no significant advantage for the Deep group over the Body group.
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Mueller, J.H., Carlomusto, M. & Goldstein, A.G. Orienting task and study time in facial recognition. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 11, 313–316 (1978). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03336841
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