APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Insults from Racial Ingroup and the Highly Attractive Stick in Memory More Than Compliments
- Dylan Luciani
University of Tampa - Sophia Brown
The University of Tampa - Kristen Gatchalian
University of Tampa - Nina Clifford
University of Tampa - Benjamin Marsh
The University of Tampa
Abstract
This study tests whether compliments or insults make a face more memorable and whether such comments mitigate the cross-race effect. Using 72 White participants, insult-paired faces were more memorable. Moreover, the CRE was mitigated when Black and White faces were paired with compliments, but not when paired with insults.
Memory
