Building Face Composites Can Harm Lineup Identification Performance

Autor/inn/en	Wells, Gary L.; Charman, Steve D.; Olson, Elizabeth A.
Titel	Building Face Composites Can Harm Lineup Identification Performance
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 11 (2005) 3, S.147-156 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1076-898X
Schlagwörter	Human Body; Experiments; Memory; Identification; Experimental Psychology; Crime + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Menschlicher Körper; Erprobung; Gedächtnis; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Experimentelle Psychologie; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt
Abstract	Face composite programs permit eyewitnesses to build likenesses of target faces by selecting facial features and combining them into an intact face. Research has shown that these composites are generally poor likenesses of the target face. Two experiments tested the proposition that this composite-building process could harm the builder's memory for the face. In Experiment 1 (n=150), the authors used 50 different faces and found that the building of a composite reduced the chances that the person could later identify the original face from a lineup when compared with no composite control conditions or with yoked composite-exposure control conditions. In Experiment 2 (n=200), the authors found that this effect generalized to a simulated-crime video, but mistaken identifications from target-absent lineups were not inflated by composite building. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10