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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"Eyewitnesses"”.
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Do actors or observers make better eyewitnesses?
Researchers studying the reliability of eyewitness testimony have focused mainly on criminal rather than civil cases, specifically those including product identification and liability. With numerous lawsuits against product manufacturers (including toxic substances like asbestos), an understanding …
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Does mental context reinstatement mitigate Retrieval Induced Forgetting in eyewitnesses?
The current study sought to examine Retrieval Induced Forgetting (RIF) as it may occur within an investigative setting, while also assessing Mental Context Reinstatement (MCR) as a tool to mitigate this forgetting. Various methodological shortcomings of similar past research were addressed and …
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A Repeated Forced-Choice Lineup Procedure: Examining the Impact on Child and Adult Eyewitnesses
… (RFC) lineup procedure with child and adult eyewitnesses. The RFC procedure divides the identification task into a series of exhaustive binary comparisons (i.e., round-robin design) and, in doing so, provides information about (a) who the witness believes is the suspect (if any) and, (b) …
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Does the Post-Identification Feedback Effect Persist in Eyewitnesses Viewing Multiple Perpetrator Line-ups?
… often unreliable, even more so, the testimony of eyewitnesses who have witnessed multiple perpetrator crimes. This is because eyewitnesses to multiple perpetrator crimes have the challenging tasks of recalling the crime scene, correctly identifying the perpetrators involved in the crime, and …
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Are they right or wrong? Investigating the ability to judge the accuracy of eyewitnesses in same-and -other race identifications
… the cross-race effect in the context of eyewitnesses and jury decision-making. The main goal of my thesis was to gain further insight into participants’ knowledge of the cross-race effect and how this impacted participants’ discrimination of same- and cross-race identifications. One …
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The Everlasting Plague of Settler Colonialism in South Africa: An Autoethnographic Study on the Settler Logic of Eliminations? Assimilative Projects and its Impact Upon Understandings of Identity and the Self
… often unreliable, even more so, the testimony of eyewitnesses who have witnessed multiple perpetrator crimes. This is because eyewitnesses to multiple perpetrator crimes have the challenging tasks of recalling the crime scene, correctly identifying the perpetrators involved in the crime, and …
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Running head featural composites and lineups: "What big teeth you have" - Red Riding Hood and the face recognition failure : the effects of isolated featural and configural composite construction and recognition accuracy
… testimony is often susceptible to contamination. Eyewitnesses are usually required to construct a composite of the perpetrator. Research has suggested that eyewitnesses who construct composites are more likely to misidentify the target in a later recognition task (Comish, 1987; Wells, Charman, & …
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The Use of Tape Recordings in Teaching Local History
… the use of recorded documentary statements by eyewitnesses to local events. As illustrative of this mode of teaching local history, a series of recordings are made in which the residents of the Pomona, California, area who were eyewitnesses to the local events or who could relate reliable …
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When do eyewitness behaviors reflect the presence or absence of the culprit in a lineup?
… the culprit. Accordingly, I exposed participant-eyewitnesses (N = 790) to a wide range of viewing conditions with the goal of increasing variability in both memory strength and postdictor variables. After viewing a simulated crime, participants completed a short filler task, and then completed …
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Multiple independent lineups: A procedure for corroborating eyewitness identification evidence in children
Child eyewitnesses exhibit problematic choosing on police lineups at a higher rate than adults (Fitzgerald & Price, 2015), which is an issue as mistaken eyewitness testimony is a leading cause of wrongful convictions (National Registry of Exonerations, 2019). This study examined a novel eyewitness …
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A Portfolio of Original Compositions (Anselm McDonnell)
… to copyright issues:<br/>1. Hinneni<br/>7a. Eyewitnesses of His Majesty mvt 1<br/>7b. Eyewitnesses of His Majesty mvt III<br/>7C. Eyewitnesses of His Majesty mvt VI<br/>9. Enturfment<br/>12. Baptisms in Solway Firth &<br/>13. Engines of Babel</b>
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Gender-bias and its influence on the accuracy of eyewitness identification of perpetrators
<p>"Previous research has looked at how eyewitnesses can identify characteristically with victims of crimes, but few have looked at how eyewitnesses identify with the perpetrators in any capacity (Block, Greenberg, & Goodman, 2009). More specifically, few have looked at how gender-bias influences …
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Contribution of Role Recollection and Perpetrator Identification to the Accuracy of Multi-perpetrator Eyewitness Testimonies
… one perpetrator. The task for multi-perpetrator eyewitnesses is unique as they not only have to identify perpetrators, but describe the roles played in the crime and then assign an action to each perpetrator. This study examined factors affecting perpetrator identification, role recollection, and …
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The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker: investigating facial recognition for multiple-perpetrator crimes
… parades is poorly defined. Furthermore, eyewitnesses must make multiple identifications, and are tasked with a unique memory problem of perpetrator-role assignment. I studied these problems in the following ways: (a) a survey among South African detectives (N = 75) to investigate how …
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Featural and holistic processing in facial composite construction: the role of cognitive style and processing sets
When a serious crime has been committed, eyewitnesses may be required to assist a police investigation by constructing a facial composite of the perpetrator of the crime with the help of a police operator. A large body of research has investigated the utility of composite construction systems and …
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Showup identifications: the effects of presence of stolen property and suspect’s denial on identification performance
… more accurate identification decisions from eyewitnesses.
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Robert Boyle and the Significance of Skill and Experience in Seventeenth-Century Natural Philosophy
… the credibility assessment of tradesmen and eyewitnesses to natural phenomena, the contingencies involved in the making of experiments, and Boyle's statements about the requisite skills of experimental philosophy in contrast to other traditions. Subtopics explored include the popularization …
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THE INFLUENCE OF MISLEADING POSTEVENT INFORMATION ON ITEM RECOGNITION
… findings are generalizable to real world eyewitnesses.</p><p>Subjects were shown four critical event items in a series of slides. Afterward, all subjects were misinformed (misled condition) that for two of the event items, other items had appeared. No misinformation (control condition) was …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… the same race, while White mock jurors rated all eyewitnesses similarly. In Experiment 2, Black and Hispanic mock jurors rated the testimony of a minority eyewitness as more important when the defendant in the case was of the same ethnicity but did not differ from White mock jurors in verdicts or …
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