The own-race bias (ORB) is a reliable phenomenon across cultural and racial groups where
unfamiliar faces from other races are usually remembered more poorly than own-race faces …

As author Bennett Schwartz says in Memory: Foundations and Applications, it is hard to
imagine an aspect of psychology more fundamental than memory. This unique text covers …

Despite extensive research on unfamiliar face matching, little is known about factors that
might affect matching performance in real-life scenarios. We conducted 2 experiments to …

Eyewitness testimony forms an important component in deciding whether a case can be
prosecuted. Yet, many criminal perpetrators deliberately conceal their faces with disguises …

Between the ever-increasing availability of surveillance evidence and expert-based forensic
facial comparison being considered admissible in court, confirming its validity is paramount …

The other-race effect in face identification has been documented widely in memory tasks, but
it persists also in identity-matching tasks, in which memory contributions are minimized …

The successful identification of a forensic facial reconstruction relies upon many factors
other than merely the accuracy of the reconstruction. The way in which the reconstructed …

Prospective person memory refers to the search for a missing or wanted person.
Performance on prospective person memory tasks has been found to be poor in field‐based …

While research has shown that wearing a disguise hinders lineup identifications, less is
known about how to conduct lineups in cases of disguised perpetrators. We examined the …

The headscarf conceals hair and other external features of a head (such as the ears). It
therefore may have implications for the way in which such faces are perceived. Images of …