Misidentifying an innocent suspect can alter witness recollections of the perpetrator’s face

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether misidentifying an innocent suspect with a unique feature (i.e. facial tattoo) would impact witnesses’ recollections of the culprit so that they would mistakenly describe the culprit as having that same feature, when in reality, he did not. In both ex...

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Main Author: Eisen, Mitchell (Author)
Contributors: Jones, Jennifer M. ; Ying, Rebecca C. ; Williams, T’awna Q. ; Ristrom, Lauren
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2023
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2023, Volume: 29, Issue: 7, Pages: 740-767
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Eyewitness
Memory
Suggestibility
misidentification
misinformation