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  • Social cognition
  • Human perception

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  • Crowd perception, or the first impression of a crowd, is a complex cognitive process.
  • Understanding how biological (e.g., sex) and social factors influence group perception is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if sex influences crowd perception and the ability to extract ensemble characteristics from crowds.
  • To examine the relationship between single face perception accuracy and crowd averaging performance in males and females.

Main Methods:

  • Participants viewed crowds of similar faces and identified a face representative of the crowd's average identity.
  • A morphed continuum of faces was used to assess the accuracy of estimating the average identity.

Main Results:

  • Females demonstrated higher precision in single face perception and greater accuracy in crowd averaging.
  • The correlation between single face discrimination and crowd averaging differed between sexes.
  • Male participants exhibited compensatory ensemble integration, mitigating poorer single face perception in crowd tasks.

Conclusions:

  • Sex-based differences exist in both single face perception and crowd perception.
  • Ensemble perception is not an isolated mechanism but is influenced by biological and social factors.
  • Cognitive strategies, like ensemble integration, can interact with and partially compensate for individual perceptual differences.