Cognitive styles and memory for faces.

Authors: Samuel Messick, Fred Damarin - Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology 1964 cited by 98

Accuracy in the incidental recall of photographed human faces can be predicted from the S's cognitive styles and biases: (a) Ss who were field dependent on an embedded-figures test recalled more faces correctly than did the field independent; (b) Ss who were narrow categorizers on the Pettigrew Cate