Judging guilt and accuracy: highly confident eyewitnesses are discounted when they provide featural justifications
Jurors are heavily swayed by confident eyewitnesses. Are they also influenced by how eyewitnesses justify their level of confidence? Here we document a counter-intuitive effect: when eyewitnesses identified a suspect from a lineup with absolute certainty (‘I am completely confident’) and justified t...
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2017
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Psychology, crime & law
Jahr: 2017, Band: 23, Heft: 5, Seiten: 487-508 |
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