Thinking outside the red box: Does the simultaneous Showup distinguish between filler siphoning and diagnostic feature detection accounts of lineup/Showup …

AM Giacona, BN Schuetter, LE Dranow, CS Peters… - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Lineups are considered a superior method of identification to showups, but why is contested.
There are two main theories: diagnostic feature detection theory, which holds that …

Persistence of the verbal overshadowing and weapon-focus effects on lineup identification performance.

CS Dodson, TM Seale-Carlisle, BL Garrett… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
After watching a video of an armed or unarmed robber, 2,609 participants either described
the robber using standard verbal instructions or person-description instructions or they did …

On the use of receiver operating characteristic area under the curve in eyewitness memory research

P Riesthuis, H Otgaar - Legal and Criminological Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Eyewitness memory research has reformed police practices and policy and is
sometimes relied upon in legal proceedings. Due to the practical implications derived from …

The masked villain: the effects of facial masking, distance, lighting, and eyewitness age on eyewitness identification accuracy

TJ Nyman, J Korkman, JM Lampinen… - Psychology, Crime & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Distance, lighting, and facial masking negatively impact eyewitness identification accuracy.
We investigated their combined effect on accuracy and how internal (eg, eyes) versus …

Appearances can be deceiving: how naturalistic changes to target appearance impact on lineup-based decision-making

DT Jordan, AJ Scott, DM Thomson - Psychology, Crime & Law, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The present study examined the influence of appearance, procedure and position on
identification decisions, post-decisional confidence ratings and estimates of discrimination …

A rate-them-all lineup procedure increases information but reduces discriminability.

AS Yilmaz, BM Wilson, JT Wixted - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Prior research has investigated ways to optimize identification performance, but an open
question concerns exactly what variable should be optimized. One reasonable way to …

The effect of lineup size on discriminability is dependent on filler similarity and independent of encoding strength

AL Lam, JT Wixted - Memory & Cognition, 2024 - Springer
A photo lineup, which consists of one suspect and several physically similar fillers, is often
used by the police to test an eyewitness's memory. To optimize memory performance, how …

Eyewitness identifications based on biased or unbiased line‐up instructions after a realistic and violent hostage simulation

TJ Nyman, G Cappa, A Zappalà… - Journal of Investigative …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Few earlier studies have investigated the effects of highly stressful, realistic, violent, and
threatening scenarios on eyewitness identification accuracy in an ecologically valid setting …

Application of artificial intelligence to eyewitness identification

H Kleider-Offutt, B Stevens, L Mickes… - … Research: Principles and …, 2024 - Springer
Artificial intelligence is already all around us, and its usage will only increase. Knowing its
capabilities is critical. A facial recognition system (FRS) is a tool for law enforcement during …

Lineup identification in young and older witnesses: does describing the criminal help or hinder?

JS Holdstock, P Dalton, KA May, S Boogert… - Cognitive Research …, 2022 - Springer
The world population is getting older and, as a result, the number of older victims of crime is
expected to increase. It is therefore essential to understand how ageing affects eyewitness …