No enhanced recognition memory,but better source memory for faces of cheaters |
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| Authors: | Axel Buchner Raoul Bell Bettina Mehl Jochen Musch |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health Mannheim, Medical Faculty Mannheim/Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany;2. Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim, Germany;1. Department of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany;2. Social Psychology Group, Department of Psychology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany;2. Ryerson University, Canada;1. Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA;2. Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA;3. Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;4. Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;5. Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada;1. Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN 47405-7007, USA |
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| Abstract: | Previous studies sought to test for the existence of a “cheater-detection module” by testing for enhanced memory for the faces of cheaters, but past results have been inconclusive. Here, we present four experiments showing that old–new discrimination was not affected by whether a face was associated with a history of cheating, trustworthy or irrelevant behavior. In contrast, source memory for faces associated with a history of cheating (i.e., memory for the cheating context in which the face was encountered) was consistently better than source memory for other types of faces. This pattern held under a variety of conditions, including different types of judgments participants made about the stimulus persons (attractiveness in Experiment 1; likeability in Experiments 2–4), different retention intervals (a few minutes in Experiments 1, 2 and 4; 1 week in Experiment 3), whether the behaviors were exceptional or ordinary (Experiments 1–3) and whether the social status of the characters was low or high (Experiment 4). Given no differences in old–new discrimination, enhanced source memory for faces of cheaters may be useful for avoiding cheaters in future interactions. |
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