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. 2022 Feb 17;17(2):e0264034.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264034. eCollection 2022.

Memory advantage for untrustworthy faces: Replication across lab- and web-based studies

Manon Giraudier  1 , Carlos Ventura-Bort  1 , Julia Wendt  1 , Alexander Lischke  2   3 , Mathias Weymar  1   4
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Memory advantage for untrustworthy faces: Replication across lab- and web-based studies

Manon Giraudier et al. PLoS One. .

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic imposed new constraints on empirical research and forced researchers to transfer from traditional laboratory research to the online environment. This study tested the validity of a web-based episodic memory paradigm by comparing participants' memory performance for trustworthy and untrustworthy facial stimuli in a supervised laboratory setting and an unsupervised web setting. Consistent with previous results, we observed enhanced episodic memory for untrustworthy compared to trustworthy faces. Most importantly, this memory bias was comparable in the online and the laboratory experiment, suggesting that web-based procedures are a promising tool for memory research.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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Fig 1
Fig 1. Raincloud plot and barplot.
A: Visualization of raw data (rain drops) and distribution of the data (boxplot, half-side violin plot) of lab and web samples on discrimination index Pr. B: Barplot on discrimination index Pr showing the trustworthiness effects for the lab and web samples.
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