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Extraordinary face recognition performance in laboratory and online testing
Author(s) -
Petersen Lara Aylin,
Leue Anja
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.3805
Subject(s) - psychology , cronbach's alpha , presentation (obstetrics) , test (biology) , facial recognition system , face validity , matching (statistics) , memory test , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , social psychology , psychometrics , cognition , pattern recognition (psychology) , statistics , medicine , paleontology , mathematics , neuroscience , biology , radiology
The Cambridge Face Memory Test Long (CFMT+) is used to investigate extraordinary face recognition abilities (super‐recognizers [SR]). Whether lab and online presentation of the CFMT+ lead to different test performance has not yet been investigated. Furthermore, we wanted to investigate psychometric properties of the CFMT+ and the Glasgow face matching test – short (GFMT‐S). We report item difficulties, Cronbach's Alpha, and T norms for the CFMT+ and GFMT‐S depending on the presentation mode. We analyzed variations of CFMT+ and GFMT‐S performance by means of presentation mode, age, and gender. The results showed significant better CFMT+ performance for online presentation, women, and participants between 26 and 35 years of age. For the GFMT‐S, significantly higher test performance was shown for online participants exclusively. Overall, we discuss the modulating effects of participants' motivation for online assessments, the necessity of differential norms (e.g., for personnel decisions), and the application of T norms.