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Experiment 1 examined compassion, self-compassion, and empathy alongside unfamiliar face recognition memory and matching. Self-compassion showed links to improved recognition, while empathy and compassion were not supported for face identification. 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Taylora and Karen Landera\naThe University of Manchester, Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology School of Biological Sciences, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K.\n*Corresponding author\nZochonis Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PT, Manchester, U.K.\nTel: 0161 275 2690\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \"mailto:kyriaki.giannou@manchester.ac.uk\" \u0014kyriaki.giannou@manchester.ac.uk\u0015\nhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9951-5052\nAbstract\nResearch has related empathy to face recognition. Empathy is proposed as part of compassion, while compassion relates to self-compassion and mindfulness, which may be more effective in face recognition than empathy alone. Experiment 1 investigated the relationship between compassion, self-compassion and empathy, and unfamiliar face recognition memory and matching. Self-compassion, including its facets of mindfulness and common humanity, were related to better recognition, but not matching. Results did not support a relationship between face identification and empathy or compassion. Experiments 2 and 3 further investigated common humanity and mindfulness and found both constructs to relate to face recognition memory. Furthermore, aspects of mindfulness (i.e., act aware and describe) positively related to face recognition. Experiment 3 used an array matching task to further show that matching did not relate to mindfulness or common humanity. The present findings may inform new directions in face recognition research, aiming to practically assist face recognition.\nKeywords: Face Recognition, Mindfulness, Compassion, Self-compassion, Empathy\nIntroduction\nThere is considerable individual variation in our ability to recognise faces. Russell, Duchaine and Nakayama (2009) used the term ‘super-recognizers’ to identify people with an extraordinary ability to recognise near strangers even if their appearance had considerably changed after a substantial amount of years. At the other end of the spectrum are prosopagnosics, who suffer from ‘face-blindness’ and whose condition leads to very poor recognition performance, even when identifying very familiar faces (Duchaine & Nakayama, 2006). However, face recognition ability within the ‘normal’ population is also reported to be variable. Woodhead and Baddeley (1981) and Wilhelm et al. (2010) tested the face recognition performance of hundreds of participants and found such a cognitive ability to vary greatly between participants, while Burton, White and McNeill (2010) showed that face matching performance ranged from near chance to perfect (see also Bruce et al., 1999; Megreya & Burton, 2006, 2008). As a result, interest in individual differences in face recognition has grown exponentially, as insight into differences in neurological, cognitive and social processes that characterise face recognition could potentially further our theoretical understanding of the underlying mechanisms of face processing (e.g., Bruce, Bindemann & Lander, 2018; Lander, Bruce & Bindemann, 2018). The present research reflects the social processes underpinning face recognition, focusing on the personality characteristics that affect face recognition performance. Exploring personality characteristics may be a further way of enhancing identification performance by controlling for characteristics and attitudes that are associated with in/accurate identifications.\nResearch has identified personality characteristics that influence unfamiliar face identification. For example, participants who scored high in empathy performed better in an unfamiliar face recognition memory task than participants who scored low in empathy (Bate, Parris, Haslam & Kay, 2010). However, the practical limitations of empathy do not enable the potential development of effective interventions, while closely related constructs could assist ","cbCaiaVFy8bCdkyb","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiaVFy8bCdkyb","docx",155181,51,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Individual differences in face recognition\n## Empathy and its limitations\n## Compassion, mindfulness, and self-compassion\n## Unfamiliar face identification processes\n# Methods and Experiments (1-3)\n## Experiment 1: compassion, self-compassion, empathy\n## Experiments 2–3: common humanity and mindfulness","[{\"question\":\"How does self-compassion relate to unfamiliar face recognition memory?\",\"answer\":\"Self-compassion, including mindfulness and common humanity facets, was associated with better recognition memory.\"},{\"question\":\"Do empathy and compassion support unfamiliar face identification or matching?\",\"answer\":\"The results did not support a relationship between face identification and empathy or compassion, and matching did not relate to these constructs.\"},{\"question\":\"What roles do common humanity and mindfulness play in face recognition?\",\"answer\":\"Common humanity and mindfulness were both linked to face recognition memory, and specific mindfulness aspects positively related to recognition performance.\"}]","Mindfulness, Compassion and Unfamiliar Face Identification - Relationship Between Key Constructs | DOCX",1788861647]