The Effect of Lineup Member Similarity on Recognition Accuracy in Simultaneous and Sequential Lineups

Two experiments investigated whether remembering is affected by the similarity of the study face relative to the alternatives in a lineup. In simultaneous and sequential lineups, choice rates and false alarms were larger in low compared to high similarity lineups, indicating criterion placement was...

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Published in:Law and human behavior 2007-02, Vol.31 (1), p.33-52
Main Authors: Flowe, Heather D, Ebbesen, Ebbe B
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Adult
Character foils
Data collection
Eyewitness identification
Face
Face Perception
False alarms
Female
Human
Human behavior
Humans
Judgment
Laboratories
Male
Memory
Mouth
Original Article
Perceptual similarity
Police lineups
Psychologists
Recognition (Psychology)
Retention
Social Perception
Stimulus Similarity
Studies
Testimony
Visual Perception
Witnesses
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Summary:Two experiments investigated whether remembering is affected by the similarity of the study face relative to the alternatives in a lineup. In simultaneous and sequential lineups, choice rates and false alarms were larger in low compared to high similarity lineups, indicating criterion placement was affected by lineup similarity structure (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2, foil choices and similarity ranking data for target present lineups were compared to responses made when the target was removed from the lineup (only the 5 foils were presented). The results indicated that although foils were selected more often in target-removed lineups in the simultaneous compared to the sequential condition, responses shifted from the target to one of the foils at equal rates across lineup procedures.
ISSN:0147-7307
1573-661X
DOI:10.1007/s10979-006-9045-9