@article{ref1,
title="More Memory Bang for the Attentional Buck",
journal="Social psychological and personality science",
year="2010",
author="Becker, D. Vaughn and Anderson, Uriah S. and Neuberg, Steven L. and Maner, Jon K. and Shapiro, Jenessa R. and Ackerman, Joshua M. and Schaller, Mark and Kenrick, Douglas T.",
volume="1",
number="2",
pages="182-189",
abstract="When encountering individuals with a potential inclination to harm them, people face a dilemma: Staring at them provides useful information about their intentions but may also be perceived by them as intrusive and challenging--thereby increasing the likelihood of the very threat the people fear. One solution to this dilemma would be an enhanced ability to efficiently encode such individuals--to be able to remember them without spending any additional direct attention on them. In two experiments, the authors primed self-protective concerns in perceivers and assessed visual attention and recognition memory for a variety of faces. Consistent with hypotheses, self-protective participants (relative to control participants) exhibited enhanced encoding efficiency (i.e., greater memory not predicated on any enhancement of visual attention) for Black and Arab male faces--groups stereotyped as being potentially dangerous--but not for female or White male faces. Results suggest that encoding efficiency depends on the functional relevance of the social information people encounter.<p />",
language="",
issn="1948-5506",
doi="10.1177/1948550609359202",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1948550609359202"
}