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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.
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A validation of the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model by reanalyzing published data
Scientific Reports, 2022 The two-high threshold (2-HT) eyewitness identification model serves as a new measurement tool to measure the latent cognitive processes underlying eyewitness identification performance.
Nicola Marie Menne +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 To improve police protocols for lineup procedures, it is helpful to understand the processes underlying eyewitness identification performance. The two-high threshold (2-HT) eyewitness identification model is a multinomial processing tree model that ...
Kristina Winter +3 more
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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 +3 more
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The effects of lineup size on the processes underlying eyewitness decisions
Scientific Reports, 2023 Here we apply the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model to identify the effects of lineup size on the detection-based and non-detection-based processes underlying eyewitness decisions.
Nicola Marie Menne +3 more
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Scientific ReportsPolice lineups are conducted with varying delays between the crime and the lineup. Crime-to-lineup delays may adversely affect the detection of the presence and absence of the culprit in the lineup and may potentially affect guessing-based selection.
Amelie Therre +5 more
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Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira +2 more
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Teaching Skepticism or Nihilism? Critical Thinking Education as a Signal Detection Problem
Applied Cognitive Psychology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2026.ABSTRACT A central goal of critical thinking courses is to help students distinguish science from pseudoscience, and more generally, warranted from unwarranted claims. Prior studies show that such courses reduce belief in unwarranted claims, but whether this reflects improved discriminability, a response bias shift, or both remains unclear.
Anthony J. Bishara
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics
Anthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 301-315, September 2026.Abstract Purpose Culprit descriptions by eyewitnesses and eyewitness responses to lineups are essential for criminal investigations—the former to locate possible suspects and the latter to provide information relevant to determining guilt or innocence.
Amelie Therre +5 more
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