کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
926549 921878 2011 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Romantic relationship status biases memory of faces of attractive opposite-sex others: Evidence from a reverse-correlation paradigm
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
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Romantic relationship status biases memory of faces of attractive opposite-sex others: Evidence from a reverse-correlation paradigm
چکیده انگلیسی

Previous research has demonstrated that, presumably as a way to protect one’s current romantic relationship, individuals involved in a heterosexual romantic relationship tend to give lower attractiveness ratings to attractive opposite-sex others as compared to uninvolved individuals (i.e., the derogation effect). The present study importantly extends this research by examining whether romantic relationship status actually biases memory for the facial appearance of attractive (vs. unattractive) mates. To address this issue, we used a reverse-correlation technique ( Mangini & Biederman, 2004), originally developed to get a visual approximation of an individual’s internal representation of a target category or person. In line with the derogation effect, results demonstrated that romantically involved (vs. uninvolved) individuals indeed held a less attractive memory of a previously encountered attractive mate’s face. Interestingly, they also held a more attractive memory of an unattractive mate’s face as compared to uninvolved individuals. This latter finding may suggest that romantically involved (as compared to uninvolved) individuals differentiate opposite-sex others along the attractiveness dimension less.


► We examine memory for facial appearance of potential mates.
► A reverse-correlation technique was used to examine memory for faces.
► Involved vs. single individuals held less attractive memories of attractive mates.
► Involved vs. single individuals held more attractive memories of unattractive mates.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Cognition - Volume 121, Issue 3, December 2011, Pages 422–426
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