Simulated Viewing Distance Impairs the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship for Long, but Not Moderate Distances: Support for a Model Incorporating the Role of Feature Ambiguity

Autor/inn/en	Davis, Sara D.; Peterson, Daniel J.
Titel	Simulated Viewing Distance Impairs the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship for Long, but Not Moderate Distances: Support for a Model Incorporating the Role of Feature Ambiguity
Quelle	In: Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7 (2022), Artikel 55 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Davis, Sara D.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2365-7464
DOI	10.1186/s41235-022-00406-5
Schlagwörter	Identification; Ambiguity (Context); Accuracy; Geographic Location; Memory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Identifikation; Identifizierung; Gedächtnis
Abstract	There is an increasing need in eyewitness identification research to identify factors that not only influence identification accuracy but may also impact the confidence--accuracy (CA) relationship. One such variable that has a notable impact on memory for faces is viewing distance, with faces encoded from a shorter distance remembered better than faces encoded at longer differences. In four pre-registered experiments, using both laboratory and online samples, we compared faces viewed at a simulated viewing distance at two different levels (medium and far) to faces that were viewed at a very near-simulated distance. Distance was simulated using a Gaussian blur function with higher levels of blur corresponding to greater simulated distance. We found that both medium and far simulated distances impaired memory performance overall relative to no simulated distance, with increased distance resulting in poorer memory. However, only far simulated distances impaired the CA relationship. In a fourth experiment, we found that a pre-test warning did not ameliorate this impairment of the CA relationship for faces viewed at a far simulated distance. These findings suggest that even high-confidence identifications made for faces viewed from long distances should be disregarded, and that estimator variables that impact memory may degrade the CA relationship when memory is reduced to critical levels. (As Provided).
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