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Face value: testing the utility of contextual face cues for face recognition
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Tupper, N and Sauer, JD and Sauerland, M and Fu, I and Hope, L, Face value: testing the utility of contextual face cues for face recognition, Memory, 26, (10) pp. 1436-1449. ISSN 0965-8211 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/09658211.2018.1489968
Abstract
The presence of multiple faces during a crime may provide a naturally-occurring contextual cue to support eyewitness recognition for those faces later. Across two experiments, we sought to investigate mechanisms underlying previously-reported cued recognition effects, and to determine whether such effects extended to encoding conditions involving more than two faces. Participants studied sets of individual faces, pairs of faces, or groups of four faces. At test, participants in the single-face condition were tested only on those individual faces without cues. Participants in the two and four-face conditions were tested using no cues, correct cues (a face previously studied with the target test face), or incorrect cues (a never-before-seen face). In Experiment 2, associative encoding was promoted by a rating task. Neither hit rates nor false-alarm rates were significantly affected by cue type or face encoding condition in Experiment 1, but cuing of any kind (correct or incorrect) in Experiment 2 appeared to provide a protective buffer to reduce false-alarm rates through a less liberal response bias. Results provide some evidence that cued recognition techniques could be useful to reduce false recognition, but only when associative encoding is strong.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | eyewitness identification, memory, recognition |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Applied and developmental psychology |
Research Field: | Forensic psychology |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Sauer, JD (Associate Professor Jim Sauer) |
ID Code: | 127138 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2018-07-13 |
Last Modified: | 2019-03-25 |
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