Remembering Facial Age: Assimilation in Memory Toward Categories of ‘Young’ and ‘Old’

Poster Session VI

Keyword: Memory

Abstract: How do we remember the age of a face? Here we show strong biases to remember young faces as younger than they really were, and old faces as older than they really were. These effects suggest the existence of age prototypes, which warp our memory of other people.

• Didi Dunin (Presenting Author)
• Joan Danielle K Ongchoco (Author)
• Benjamin van Buren (Author)