The influence of acute alcohol intoxication and hair visibility on delayed face recall.
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| Title: | The influence of acute alcohol intoxication and hair visibility on delayed face recall. |
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| Authors: | Harvey, Alistair (AUTHOR), Bayless, Sarah (AUTHOR), Abbot, Felicity (AUTHOR), Jack, Dana (AUTHOR), Cisowski, Kacper (AUTHOR), Kelleher, Hannah (AUTHOR) |
| Source: | Memory. Mar2025, Vol. 33 Issue 3, p349-361. 13p. |
| Subjects: | Face, Mouth, Alcoholic intoxication, Eye, Statistical sampling, Undergraduates, Biometry, Randomized controlled trials, Ear, Descriptive statistics, Age distribution, Cheek, Nose, Skin, Cosmetics, Memory, Sex (Biology), Hair, Motion pictures, Alcohol drinking, Chin, Lips, Breath tests, Inter-observer reliability |
| Abstract: | Many witnesses are intoxicated at crime scenes, yet little is known of their ability to accurately describe perpetrators to police. We therefore explored the impact of alcohol on delayed verbal face recall across two experiments. Participants were administered an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage prior to viewing either one or two unfamiliar female faces, which they described from memory the following day while in a sober state. Each to-be-remembered model had long hair worn either loose (i.e., visible), or tied behind the head (i.e., concealed). Testing the hypothesis that alcohol narrows the focus of attention to the external (hairstyle) region of faces, we expected intoxicated participants to have poorer memory of internal face features (eyes, nose, mouth) than sober controls for stimulus faces with visibly long hair. Results revealed poorer recall accuracy for internal face details following alcohol consumption (Exp. 2), but the effect was uninfluenced by hairstyle. Findings are therefore consistent with the more general view that alcohol is associated with a bias to the external (hairstyle) region of faces during face learning, irrespective of hair visibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | Many witnesses are intoxicated at crime scenes, yet little is known of their ability to accurately describe perpetrators to police. We therefore explored the impact of alcohol on delayed verbal face recall across two experiments. Participants were administered an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage prior to viewing either one or two unfamiliar female faces, which they described from memory the following day while in a sober state. Each to-be-remembered model had long hair worn either loose (i.e., visible), or tied behind the head (i.e., concealed). Testing the hypothesis that alcohol narrows the focus of attention to the external (hairstyle) region of faces, we expected intoxicated participants to have poorer memory of internal face features (eyes, nose, mouth) than sober controls for stimulus faces with visibly long hair. Results revealed poorer recall accuracy for internal face details following alcohol consumption (Exp. 2), but the effect was uninfluenced by hairstyle. Findings are therefore consistent with the more general view that alcohol is associated with a bias to the external (hairstyle) region of faces during face learning, irrespective of hair visibility. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 09658211 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09658211.2024.2445614 |
