Own-age bias in the educational context

An own-age bias in age estimation of faces

The occurrence of an own-age bias on age estimation of faces was assessed by comparing children (10-14), young (20-30) and older (65-75) adults’ performances. Participants from each age group estimated both in-group and out-group faces. Overall, the age of children’s faces was more accurately estimated than the age of both young and older adult faces. Moreover, the age of young adult faces was ...

What Predicts the Own-age Bias in Face Recognition Memory?

Younger and older adults' visual scan patterns were examined as they passively viewed younger and older neutral faces. Both participant age groups tended to look longer at their own-age as compared to other-age faces. In addition, both age groups reported more exposure to own-age than other-age individuals. Importantly, the own-age bias in visual inspection of faces and the own-age bias in self...

An Own-Age Bias in Recognizing Faces with Horizontal Information

Horizontal information, as a result of a selective filtering process, is essential in younger adults' (YA) ability to recognize human faces. Obermeyer et al. (2012) recently reported impaired recognition of faces with horizontal information in older adults (OA) suggesting age-variant processing. Two yet unconsidered factors (stimulus age and exposure duration) that may have influenced previous ...

Assessing the Boundary Conditions of the Own-Age and Own-Race Perceptual Bias for Faces

Own Variety Bias

In a language identification task, native Belgian French and native Swiss French speakers identified French from France as their own variety. However, Canadian French was not subject to this bias. Canadian and French listeners didn't claim a different variety as their own.