Face Recognition in Forensic Psychology: A Literature Review on Eyewitness Testimony Research [PDF]
Psicologia: Teoria e PesquisaEyewitnesses play a crucial role in the criminal justice system, providing crucial information during investigations and potentially assisting in the identification of suspects.
Renan Benigno Saraiva
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The effect of stress on memory : eyewitness performance in juveniles and young adults [PDF]
, 2009 An experimental design was used to investigate the relationship between stress and eyewitness memory in adolescents (Experiment 1) and young adults (Experiment 2). Psychosocial stress was induced using a public speaking task.
Ball, Marianne
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Perpetrator pose reinstatement during a lineup test increases discrimination accuracy
Scientific Reports, 2021 We examined how encoding view influences the information that is stored in and retrieved from memory during an eyewitness identification task. Participants watched a mock crime and we varied the angle from which they viewed the perpetrator. In Experiment
Melissa F. Colloff +8 more
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Eyewitness testimony: probative value in criminal justice system
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2019 This article reveals the problems and issues related to reliability of eyewitness testimony in the criminal justice system. The article also discusses various internal and external factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness identification, such as ...
Biswa Prakash Nayak, Himanshu Khajuria
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Human identification using facial comparative descriptions [PDF]
, 2013 Eyewitness descriptions are vital for many criminal investigations, although typically still require manual discovery of possible suspects. Soft biometrics introduce a possibility to automatically search databases based on biometric features obtained ...
Mark S. Nixon +3 more
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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 [PDF]
, 2012 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references.When a crime is committed, law enforcement typically relies on the testimony of an eyewitness. However, eyewitness testimony is often susceptible to contamination. Eyewitnesses are usually required to
Kempen, Kate-Victoria
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A Position of Influence: Variation in Offender Identification Rates by Location in a Lineup [PDF]
, 2009 Researchers have identified several threats to the validity of the use of the lineup as a test of true recognition. One concern is related to the structure of the simultaneous lineup.
Synnott, John +3 more
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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2017 Inaccurate eyewitness identifications are the leading cause of known false convictions in the United States. Moreover, improving eyewitness memory is difficult and often unsuccessful.
Michelle E Stepan +2 more
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Does Eyewitness Guess or Recognize? Bootstrapping Face and Object Identification Accuracy
Психология и право, 2020 The purpose of the study is to determine whether the eyewitness identification can be regarded as a reliable source of information in a police investigation.
Kaja Głomb
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