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- Title
The Appearance-Change Instruction Does Not Improve Line-up Identification Accuracy.
- Authors
Porter, Devon; Moss, Alexa; Reisberg, Daniel
- Abstract
In many jurisdictions, police instruct a witness, before presenting a photo line-up, that the suspect's appearance may be different in the photo than it was at the time of the crime. The experiments reported here examine the impact of this 'appearance-change instruction' (ACI), exploring its effects with different crimes, perpetrators, line-ups, and different phrasings of the ACI. The data indicate that the ACI increases witnesses' willingness to make a choice from a line-up but does not increase accuracy. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
POLICE lineups; JURISDICTION; EYEWITNESS identification; CRIME suspects; DATA analysis
- Publication
Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 2, p151
- ISSN
0888-4080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/acp.2985