{"id":159858,"date":"2023-03-08T19:22:47","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/celebrity-sightings-have-a-built-in-contradiction"},"modified":"2023-03-08T19:22:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T01:22:47","slug":"celebrity-sightings-have-a-built-in-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/celebrity-sightings-have-a-built-in-contradiction","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity sightings have a built-in contradiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/celebrity-sightings-have-a-built-in-contradiction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Their popularity makes celebrities easy to spot. Strangers, however, can also get mistaken for celebrities, resulting in cases of false \u201ccelebrity sightings.\u201d In attempting to explain the contradiction, a University of California, Riverside, study reports that celebrity faces are remembered more precisely but less accurately.<\/p>\n<p>Precision, in this context, refers to how memories for a particular face resemble each other over repeated <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">memory<\/a> retrievals, which can be likened to the clustering of arrows on a target in archery. Accuracy measures how remembered faces resemble newly encountered faces\u2014or the deviation from the target in archery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat our findings say is that people might accept errors by misidentifying someone as a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/celebrity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">celebrity<\/a> in the interest of securing a \u2018celebrity sighting,\u2019\u201d said Weiwei Zhang, an associate professor of psychology, who led the study that appears in the journal <i>Psychonomic Bulletin &amp; Review<\/i>. \u201cOur study explains why people are good and bad at spotting celebrities and highlights the importance of assessing both memory imprecision and bias in memory performance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Their popularity makes celebrities easy to spot. Strangers, however, can also get mistaken for celebrities, resulting in cases of false \u201ccelebrity sightings.\u201d In attempting to explain the contradiction, a University of California, Riverside, study reports that celebrity faces are remembered more precisely but less accurately. Precision, in this context, refers to how memories for a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}