A test of ability to recognize faces was constructed in which subjects were asked to identify, from a group of portraits on a chart, persons whose photographs were previously seen on cards. The number of correct identifications constituted the score. The data indicated that women are perhaps superior to men in the test; that sales people are superior to students and farm people; that fraternity people are perhaps superior to non-fraternity people. Masking the lower part of the face in the pictures lowered the scores more than masking the upper face. Subjects who were superior in remembering and naming details of the photographs were not superior in identification. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)