Faces
Memory biases for faces in different social contexts
The ability to recognize the faces of potential cooperators and cheaters is fundamental to social exchanges, given that cooperation for mutual benefit is expected. Studies have shown that across a broad array of exchanges, memory for individuals displaying prosocial (e.g. cooperation) and antisocial (e.g. cheating) might differ. The aim here is to investigate the effect of agency (myself & others) in memory biases for faces during social interactions.
Self-face perception
Face perception involves a multitude of cognitive processes and it is usually fast and accurate, but very little is known about the recognition of one's own face.
Self-face knowledge is relevant to visual self-awareness and it helps the construction and retrieval of a mental representation of ourselves that is different from others (Gallup, 1998). Here are some of the core questions we aim to answer: How well do we know our faces? Is featural and configural processing of self-faces similar to the processing of other faces? Is there any link between self-awareness, mindreading abilities, and empathy?
Visual field asymmetries during face encoding
Mind attribution and face recognition abilities in social scenarios
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