New super-recognisers research published in The Conversation

Together with David Robertson (University of Strathclyde) and Ahmed Megreya (Qatar University), Josh Davis wrote a summary article for the Conversation describing recent research on the cross-ethnicity effect. Experiment 3 examined super-recognisers.
 

https://theconversation.com/facial-recognition-research-reveals-new-abilities-of-super-recognisers-128414
 

Thanks to all the participants from our database who we invited to contribute to this research in May to July 2018. Yep - it always takes a long time to publish research.
 

The original research in Applied Cognitive Psychology can be found here:-
 

Robertson, D., Black, J., Chamberlain, B., Megreya, A. M., & Davis, J. P. (2019). Super-recognisers show an advantage for other race face identification Applied Cognitive Psychology, DOI: 10.1002/acp.3608
 

Free pre-print download here:-
 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337231339_Super-recognisers_show_an_advantage_for_other_race_face_identification