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Slower is not always better: Response-time evidence clarifies the limited role of miserly information processing in the Cognitive Reflection Test by Stupple, Edward J N, Pitchford, Melanie, Ball, Linden J, Hunt, Thomas E, Steel, Richard

“…We report a study examining the role of 'cognitive miserliness' as a determinant of poor performance on the standard three-item Cognitive Reflection Test…”
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Investigating effects of emoji on neutral narrative text: Evidence from eye movements and perceived emotional valence by Robus, Christopher M., Hand, Christopher J., Filik, Ruth, Pitchford, Melanie

“…Digital images of faces such as emoji in virtual communication have become increasingly popular, but current research findings are inconsistent regarding their…”
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Emoji Identification and Emoji Effects on Sentence Emotionality in ASD-Diagnosed Adults and Neurotypical Controls by Hand, Christopher J., Kennedy, Ashley, Filik, Ruth, Pitchford, Melanie, Robus, Christopher M.

“…We investigated ASD-diagnosed adults’ and neurotypical (NT) controls’ processing of emoji and emoji influence on the emotionality of otherwise-neutral…”
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Recovering Faces From Memory: The Distracting Influence of External Facial Features by Frowd, Charlie D, Skelton, Faye, Atherton, Chris, Pitchford, Melanie, Hepton, Gemma, Holden, Laura, McIntyre, Alex H, Hancock, Peter J. B

“…Recognition memory for unfamiliar faces is facilitated when contextual cues (e.g., head pose, background environment, hair and clothing) are consistent between…”
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The Advantage of Low and Medium Attractiveness for Facial Composite Production from Modern Forensic Systems by Richardson, Beth H., Brown, Charity, Heard, Priscilla, Pitchford, Melanie, Portch, Emma, Lander, Karen, Marsh, John E., Bell, Raoul, Fodarella, Cristina, Taylor, Sarah Ashley, Worthington, Mikaela, Ellison, Lauren, Charters, Philippa, Green, Dannii, Minahil, Simra, Frowd, Charlie D.

“…Recognition following long delays is superior for highly attractive and highly unattractive faces (cf. medium-attractive faces). In the current work, we…”
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Whole-face procedures for recovering facial images from memory by Frowd, Charlie D, Skelton, Faye, Hepton, Gemma, Holden, Laura, Minahil, Simra, Pitchford, Melanie, McIntyre, Alex, Brown, Charity, Hancock, Peter J.B

“…Abstract Research has indicated that traditional methods for accessing facial memories usually yield unidentifiable images. Recent research, however, has made…”
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The psychology of face construction: Giving evolution a helping hand by Frowd, Charlie D., Pitchford, Melanie, Bruce, Vicki, Jackson, Sam, Hepton, Gemma, Greenall, Maria, McIntyre, Alex H., Hancock, Peter J. B.

“…Face construction by selecting individual facial features rarely produces recognisable images. We have been developing a system called EvoFIT that works by the…”
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Understanding the multiframe caricature advantage for recognizing facial composites by Frowd, Charlie D., Skelton, Faye, Atherton, Chris, Pitchford, Melanie, Bruce, Vicki, Atkins, Rebecca, Gannon, Carol, Ross, David, Young, Fern, Nelson, Laura, Hepton, Gemma, McIntyre, Alex H., Hancock, Peter J. B.

“…Eyewitnesses often construct a "composite" face of a person they saw commit a crime, a picture that police use to identify suspects. We described a technique…”
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Evolving the face of a criminal: how to search a face space more effectively by Frowd, Charlie, Bruce, Vicki, Pitchford, Melanie, Gannon, Carol, Robinson, Mark, Tredoux, Colin, Park, Jo, Mcintyre, Alex, Hancock, Peter J. B.

“…Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite, a visual likeness of a suspect’s face. The traditional method is for…”
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Evolving the memory of a criminal’s face: methods to search a face space more effectively by Frowd, Charlie, Bruce, Vicki, Pitchford, Melanie, Gannon, Carol, Robinson, Mark, Tredoux, Colin, Park, Jo, Mcintyre, Alex, Hancock, Peter J. B.

“…Witnesses and victims of serious crime are often required to construct a facial composite from their memory, a visual likeness of a suspect’s face. The…”
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The impact of misleading information on the identifiability of feature-based facial composites by Pitchford, Melanie, Green, Danielle, Frowd, Charlie D.

“…The misinformation effect demonstrates that when eyewitnesses are exposed to details of a crime that are incorrect, they are less accurate in their later…”
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Catching Even More Offenders with EvoFIT Facial Composites by Frowd, C. D., Pitchford, M., Skelton, F., Petkovic, A., Prosser, C., Coates, B.

“…Facial composites are an investigative tool used by police to identify suspects of crime. Unfortunately, traditional methods to construct the face have rather…”
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Giving Crime the 'evo': Catching Criminals Using EvoFIT Facial Composites by Frowd, C D, Hancock, P J B, Bruce, V, McIntyre, A H, Pitchford, M, Atkins, R, Webster, A, Pollard, J, Hunt, B, Price, E, Morgan, S, Stoika, A, Dughila, R, Maftei, S, Sendrea, G

“…Facial composites are traditionally made by witnesses and victims describing and selecting parts of criminals' faces, but this method is hard to do and has…”
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Effecting an Improvement to the Fitness Function. How to Evolve a More Identifiable Face by Frowd, C., Park, J., McIntyre, A., Bruce, V., Pitchford, M., Fields, S., Kenirons, M., Hancock, P.J.B.

“…Constructing the face of a criminal from the selection of individual facial parts is a hard task. We have been working on a new system called EvoFIT that…”
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