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Showup identification decisions for multiple perpetrator crimes: testing for sequential dependencies
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Tupper, N and Sauerland, M and Sauer, JD and Broers, NJ and Charman, SD and Hope, L, Showup identification decisions for multiple perpetrator crimes: testing for sequential dependencies, PloS ONE, 13, (12) Article e0208403. ISSN 1932-6203 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208403
Abstract
Research in perception and recognition demonstrates that a current decision (i) can be influenced by previous ones (i-j), meaning that subsequent responses are not always independent. Experiments 1 and 2 tested whether initial showup identification decisions impact choosing behavior for subsequent showup identification responses. Participants watched a mock crime film involving three perpetrators and later made three showup identification decisions, one showup for each perpetrator. Across both experiments, evidence for sequential dependencies for choosing behavior was not consistently predictable. In Experiment 1, responses on the third, target-present showup assimilated towards previous choosing. In Experiment 2, responses on the second showup contrasted previous choosing regardless of target-presence. Experiment 3 examined whether differences in number of test trials in the eyewitness (vs. basic recognition) paradigm could account for the absence of hypothesized ability to predict patterns of sequential dependencies in Experiments 1 and 2. Sequential dependencies were detected in recognition decisions over many trials, including recognition for faces: the probability of a yes response on the current trial increased if the previous response was also yes (vs. no). However, choosing behavior on previous trials did not predict individual recognition decisions on the current trial. Thus, while sequential dependencies did arise to some extent, results suggest that the integrity of identification and recognition decisions are not likely to be impacted by making multiple decisions in a row.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | eyewitness identification, sequential dependencies |
| Research Division: | Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
| Research Group: | Psychology |
| Research Field: | Forensic Psychology |
| Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Group: | Expanding Knowledge |
| Objective Field: | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
| UTAS Author: | Sauer, JD (Dr Jim Sauer) |
| ID Code: | 130429 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 1 |
| Deposited By: | Psychology |
| Deposited On: | 2019-01-24 |
| Last Modified: | 2019-04-15 |
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