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Depth of processing and anxiety in facial recognition
Author(s) -
Mueller John H.,
Bailis Karen L.,
Goldstein Alvin G.
Publication year - 1979
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/j.2044-8295.1979.tb01724.x
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , judgement , audiology , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , psychiatry , medicine , political science , law
Subjects selected on the basis of test anxiety scores made a judgement about each face in a series of slides. These orienting tasks involved either abstract traits (e.g. dependability) or physical features (e.g. weight), and decisions were made relative to either an absolute criterion or self‐reference. A subsequent recognition test revealed superior performance by low‐anxiety subjects and by subjects who evaluated abstract features during study, but there were no depth by anxiety interactions. The reference point for the decision had little effect overall, but the anxiety deficit was more apparent when the absolute reference point was involved.