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Autor/inn/en | Kopietz, René; Echterhoff, Gerald; Niemeier, Sarah; Hellmann, Jens H.; Memon, Amina |
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Titel | Audience-congruent biases in eyewitness memory and judgment. Influences of a co-witness' liking for a suspect. |
Quelle | In: Social psychology, 40 (2009) 3, S. 138-149Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1864-9335 |
Schlagwörter | Gedächtnis; Kognitive Kompetenz; Forensische Psychologie; Sozialer Einfluss; Zeuge |
Abstract | Investigates the influence of global biasing information, such as a co-witness' impression of a suspect, on eyewitness memory. 80 psychology students (mean age 23 years) watched a video depicting a bar brawl involving a male target person. Subjects were then required to relate the ovserved incident to an audience which was described as either liking or disliking the target person. The audience was a generic fellow student or a student from a different study field (law). After retelling the incident to a generic fellow student who presumably disliked the target person, participants exhibited audience-congruent biases in memory and judgment. Specifically, they recalled more negative information about the target, considered him more responsible for the incident, and assigned him higher penalties. No such effects were found when participants were less motivated to create a shared view about the incident (with audiences from a different study field). Various implications of this study's results are discussed. (ZPID). |
Erfasst von | Leibniz-Institut für Psychologie, Trier |
Update | 2010/1 |