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Identification performance from multiple lineups: Should eyewitnesses who pick fillers be burned?
Citation
Smalarz, L and Kornell, N and Vaughn, KE and Palmer, MA, Identification performance from multiple lineups: Should eyewitnesses who pick fillers be burned?, Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 8, (2) pp. 221-232. ISSN 2211-3681 (2019) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2019 Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2019.03.001
Abstract
Over the course of a criminal investigation, eyewitnesses are sometimes shown multiple lineups in an attempt to identify the culprit, yet little research has examined eyewitness identification performance from multiple lineups. In two experiments, we examined eyewitness identification accuracy among witnesses who made an inaccurate identification from an initial lineup, correctly rejected an initial lineup, or saw no initial lineup. Consistent with the legal practice of "burning" eyewitnesses who pick fillers, witnesses who made an inaccurate identification from an initial lineup provided subsequent identification evidence that had little diagnostic value and reflected poor memory performance. Critically, these eyewitnesses’ initial-identification confidence did not predict their subsequent identification accuracy, thus precluding the identification of witnesses who could provide diagnostic evidence in a subsequent lineup. Eyewitnesses who correctly rejected the initial lineup performed similarly to eyewitnesses who saw only one lineup, and initial-rejection confidence was associated with subsequent identification accuracy under some conditions.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | eyewitness identification, eyewitness memory, eyewitness confidence, multiple lineups, diagnosticity, dicriminability, police investigation |
Research Division: | Psychology |
Research Group: | Cognitive and computational psychology |
Research Field: | Memory and attention |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in psychology |
UTAS Author: | Palmer, MA (Associate Professor Matt Palmer) |
ID Code: | 133008 |
Year Published: | 2019 |
Funding Support: | Australian Research Council (DP140103746) |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 8 |
Deposited By: | Psychology |
Deposited On: | 2019-05-31 |
Last Modified: | 2020-06-22 |
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