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Memory for incidentally perceived social cues: Effects on person judgment
Author(s) -
Pawling Ralph,
Kirkham Alexander J.,
Tipper Steven P.,
Over Harriet
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/bjop.12182
Subject(s) - psychology , gaze , social cue , cognitive psychology , ambiguity , perception , salient , social perception , social psychology , pupillary response , cue dependent forgetting , context (archaeology) , pupil , neuroscience , paleontology , linguistics , philosophy , artificial intelligence , computer science , psychoanalysis , biology
Dynamic face cues can be very salient, as when observing sudden shifts of gaze to a new location, or a change of expression from happy to angry. These highly salient social cues influence judgments of another person during the course of an interaction. However, other dynamic cues, such as pupil dilation, are much more subtle, affecting judgments of another person even without awareness. We asked whether such subtle, incidentally perceived, dynamic cues could be encoded in to memory and retrieved at a later time. The current study demonstrates that in some circumstances changes in pupil size in another person are indeed encoded into memory and influence judgments of that individual at a later time. Furthermore, these judgments interact with the perceived trustworthiness of the individual and the nature of the social context. The effect is somewhat variable, however, possibly reflecting individual differences and the inherent ambiguity of pupil dilation/constriction.