Do the clothes make the criminal? The influence of clothing match on identification accuracy in showups

被引:10
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作者
Wetmore, Stacy A. [1 ]
Neuschatz, Jeffrey S. [2 ]
Gronlund, Scott D. [1 ]
Key, Kylie N. [1 ]
Goodsell, Charles A. [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Oklahoma, Dept Psychol, Norman, OK 73019 USA
[2] Univ Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899 USA
[3] Canisius Coll, Buffalo, NY 14208 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Showups; Clothing match; Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis; OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; EYEWITNESS IDENTIFICATION; ROC ANALYSIS; MEMORY; CONTEXT;
D O I
10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.12.003
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Showups, a single suspect identification, are thought to be a more suggestive procedure than traditional lineups by the U.S. Supreme Court and social science researchers. Previous research typically finds that a clothing match in showup identifications increases false identifications. However, these experiments do not allow for a determination of whether this increase arises from a change in response bias, reduced discriminability, or both. In the present study, participants viewed a mock crime video and made a showup identification with either a clothing match or mismatch. Contrary to prior research, the best discriminability occurred when the guilty and innocent suspects wore clothing that matched the clothing worn during the crime. A clothing match also resulted in a more liberal response bias. The results are consistent with the principle of encoding specificity and the outshining hypothesis, as instantiated in the item, context, ensemble theory. Practical implications are discussed. (C) 2014 Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:36 / 42
页数:7
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