Abstract
Eighty undergraduates viewed 10 color photographs of female faces through a tachistoscope. Faces were presented for 1.5 or 5 seconds in bright or dim light. Participants then saw 40 photographs, including the original 10, in bright or dim light, and identified each photograph as old or new. Results indicated that recognition of the 10 original faces was enhanced by longer exposure, bright light at the time of encoding, and bright light at the time of recognition. These results support Shapiro and Penrod’s (1986) proposals about facial recognition and suggest that illumination is another important environmental determinant of facial identification.
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