For decades, eyewitness memory research has had the worthy goal of minimizing the
chances that an innocent suspect is falsely identified. However, this is not the only goal …

Cognitive and social factors can deteriorate eyewitness identification performance in
children and older adults. An identification procedure that mitigates the effect of such factors …

Accurate witness identification is a cornerstone of police inquiries and national security
investigations. However, witnesses can make errors. We experimentally tested whether an …

Police lineups are widely used despite evidence that eyewitnesses frequently err by failing
to identify the culprit or mistakenly identifying innocent suspects or lineup fillers. We examine …

The criminal justice system should consider the confidence an eyewitness expresses when
making an identification at the time the initial lineup procedure is conducted. High …

Objective: According to the pristine conditions hypothesis, high-confidence identifications
will be “remarkably accurate” when identification procedures (ie, system variables, eg, fair …

The distance from which an eyewitness views a perpetrator is a critical factor for eyewitness
identification, but has received little research attention. We presented three mock‐crime …

Researchers have argued that simultaneous lineups should follow the principle of propitious
heterogeneity, based on the idea that if the fillers are too similar to the perpetrator even an …

To improve police protocols for lineup procedures, it is helpful to understand the processes
underlying eyewitness identification performance. The two-high threshold (2-HT) eyewitness …

Here we apply the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model to identify the effects
of lineup size on the detection-based and non-detection-based processes underlying …