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Line-Up Image Position in Simultaneous and Sequential Line-Ups: The Effects of Age and Viewing Distance on Selection Patterns

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
It is known that children and older adults produce more false alarms in target absent line-ups and that weaker facial encoding increases choosing bias.
Thomas J. Nyman, Thomas J. Nyman, Jan Antfolk, James Michael Lampinen, Julia Korkman, Pekka Santtila   +5 more
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Eyewitness Memory Research and Legal Practices: A Historical Perspective

Yaşam Becerileri Psikoloji Dergisi, 2018
The reliability of eyewitness memory is of great importance for justice system. Memory errors in eyewitness testimonials may lead to serious consequences such as the inability to find the real perpetrators as well as wrongful convictions due to ...
Pınar Kurdoglu Ersoy
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Measuring lineup fairness from eyewitness identification data using a multinomial processing tree model

Scientific Reports, 2023
The mock-witness task is typically used to evaluate the fairness of lineups. However, the validity of this task has been questioned because there are substantial differences between the tasks for mock witnesses and eyewitnesses. Unlike eyewitnesses, mock
Nicola Marie Menne, Kristina Winter, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner   +3 more
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Assessment of Testifying Ability in Preschool Children: CAPALIST

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Purpose: Interviews to obtain statements in judicial procedures need to be adapted to the witnesses’ abilities to testify. Moreover, knowing the cognitive abilities involved in testifying provides relevant criteria to assess statement credibility. As age
María José Contreras, Gerardo Prieto, Eva A. Silva, José L. González, Antonio L. Manzanero   +4 more
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Evaluating the impact of first-yes-counts instructions on eyewitness performance using the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model

Scientific Reports, 2023
In eyewitness research, multiple identification decisions in sequential lineups are typically prevented by telling participants that only their first identification decision counts.
Kristina Winter, Nicola Marie Menne, Raoul Bell, Axel Buchner   +3 more
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Automatic Classification of Eyewitness Messages for Disaster Events Using Linguistic Rules and ML/AI Approaches

Applied Sciences, 2022
Emergency response systems require precise and accurate information about an incident to respond accordingly. An eyewitness report is one of the sources of such information.
Sajjad Haider, Azhar Mahmood, Shaheen Khatoon, Majed Alshamari, Muhammad Tanvir Afzal   +4 more
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Analysis of eyewitness testimony in a police shooting with fatal outcome – Manifestations of spatial and temporal distortions

Cogent Psychology, 2018
Eyewitness statements are commonly used in the criminal justice system and viewed as having a high-probative value, especially when the witness has no motive to lie, other witness recollection corroborates the account, or the witness is highly confident.
Mats Dahl, Simon Granér, Per-Anders Fransson, Johan Bertilsson, Peter Fredriksson   +4 more
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What Italian Defense Attorneys Know about Factors affecting Eyewitness Accuracy: A Comparison with U.S. and Norwegian Samples

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2013
We surveyed 100 Italian defense attorneys about their knowledge and beliefs about factors affecting eyewitness accuracy. The results of a series of similar surveys show that U.S.
Svein eMagnussen, Martin A Safer, Giuseppe eSartori, Richard A Wise   +3 more
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When ‘Seeing Was Believing’: Visual Advocacy in the Early Decades of Humanitarian Cinema

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021
Focusing on the pivotal period of 1919–23 and the large-scale humanitarian responses in Central and Eastern Europe, this paper discusses the development of advocacy in the movies made by organizations like the ICRC, Save the Children Fund or American ...
Valérie Gorin
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The effect of pre-event instructions on eyewitness identification

Cognitive Research, 2023
Research on eyewitness identification often involves exposing participants to a simulated crime and later testing memory using a lineup. We conducted a systematic review showing that pre-event instructions, instructions given before event exposure, are ...
Mario J. Baldassari, Kara N. Moore, Ira E. Hyman, Lorraine Hope, Eric Y. Mah, D. Stephen Lindsay, Jamal Mansour, Renan Saraiva, Ruth Horry, Hannah Rath, Lauren Kelly, Rosie Jones, Shannan Vale, Bethany Lawson, Josh Pedretti, Tomás A. Palma, Francisco Cruz, Joana Quarenta, Ine Van der Cruyssen, Mila Mileva, Jessica Allen, Brittany Jeye, Sera Wiechert   +22 more
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