Hyper-realistic face masks have been used as disguises in at least one border crossing and in numerous criminal cases. Experimental tests using these masks have shown that viewers accept them as real faces under a range of conditions. Here, we tested mask detection in a live identity verification task. Fifty-four visitors at the London Science…Continue Reading Hyper-realistic Face Masks in a Live Passport-Checking Task
Day: February 5, 2020
Effect of Group Size and Individual Characteristics on Intergroup Encounters in Primates
Intergroup encounters are common in nonhuman primates and can vary from affiliative to aggressive. We extracted data from the literature to test five different hypotheses: 1) where there are group size differences between opposing groups, whether the larger group is more likely to win an intergroup encounter than the smaller group; 2) whether the likelihood…Continue Reading Effect of Group Size and Individual Characteristics on Intergroup Encounters in Primates