Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2013 Jun;20(3):468-73. doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0381-8.
Recent evidence suggests that observers can rapidly form an average representation based on a set of simultaneously presented faces. Here, we replicate this finding and show that the tendency to process sets of faces in terms of an average representation is greater for own-gender faces. Male and female participants viewed sets of four male or female faces before deciding whether or not a subsequently presented single test face had been present in the set. Incorrect endorsement that it was one of the set members was greater when the test face was a morphed average of the four faces than when it was an actual set member, and this effect was strongest when the gender of the faces was the same as the observer's. The finding that observers were more likely to incorrectly endorse own-gender (vs. other-gender) faces forms an exception to the often reported own-gender advantage in face recognition.
最近的证据表明，观察者可以根据一组同时呈现的面孔快速形成平均表示。在这里，我们复制了这一发现，并表明基于平均表示来处理一组面孔的趋势在同性别的面孔中更为明显。男性和女性参与者在决定随后呈现的单个测试面孔是否在一组中之前，先观看四组男性或女性面孔。当测试面孔是四个面孔的变形平均值而不是实际的一组成员时，错误地表示它是一组成员的比例更大，而当面孔的性别与观察者相同时，这种效果最强。观察者更有可能错误地认可自己性别（与其他性别）面孔的发现，这与通常报告的面孔识别中自己性别的优势形成了例外。
