Evidence for a young adult face bias in accuracy and consensus of age estimates.
Adults' face processing may be specialized for the dimensions of young adult faces. For example, young and older adults exhibit increased accuracy in normality judgments and greater agreement in attractiveness ratings for young versus older adult faces. The present study was designed to examine whet...
| Published in: | British Journal of Psychology Vol. 110; no. 4; pp. 652 - 670 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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