The importance of decision bias for predicting eyewitness lineup choices: toward a Lineup Skills Test.

ABSTRACT: ᅟ: We report on research on individual-difference measures that could be used to assess the validity of eyewitness identification decisions.

Background

The predictive utility of face recognition tasks for eyewitness identification has received some attention from psychologists, but the previous research focused primarily on witnesses' likelihood of correctly choosing the culprit when present in a lineup. Far less discussed has been individual differences in witnesses' proclivity to choose from a lineup that does not contain the culprit. We designed a two-alternative non-forced-choice face recognition task (consisting of mini-lineup test pairs, half old/new and half new/new) to predict witnesses' proclivity to choose for a set of culprit-absent lineups associated with earlier-viewed

SUBMITTER: Baldassari MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6352739 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature