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- Title
Sind Polizisten/-innen bessere Augenzeugen/-innen? Ein Vergleich zwischen Polizisten/-innen und Zivilpersonen hinsichtlich Beschreibungen und Identifizierungsaussagen.
- Authors
Kaminski, Kristina S.; Sporer, Siegfried L.
- Abstract
Are police officers better eyewitnesses than laypersons? We compared 96 experienced police officers and 96 laypersons regarding their memory for correct and false person, event, and crime scene details, as well as identification accuracy (using target-present or target-absent lineups). Police officers remembered more correct perpetrator details. Laypersons gave more detailed descriptions of the crime scene but also mentioned more false details. There were neither differences in identification accuracy nor in response bias. However, regarding different retrospective self-evaluation measures, police officers were more willing to testify about their identification and rated their encoding conditions as more favorable than did laypersons. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.
- Publication
Recht & Psychiatrie, 2016, Vol 34, Issue 1, p18
- ISSN
0724-2247
- Publication type
Article