Investigating investigators: Examining the impact of eyewitness identification evidence on student-investigators

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dc.contributor.authorBoyce, Melissa
dc.contributor.supervisorLindsay, D. Stephen
dc.contributor.supervisorBrimacombe, C. A. Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned2008-04-21T17:02:47Z
dc.date.available2008-04-21T17:02:47Z
dc.date.copyright2008en_US
dc.date.issued2008-04-21T17:02:47Z
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Psychology
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research examined the impact of eyewitness identification decisions on student-investigators. Undergraduates played the role of police investigators and interviewed student-witnesses who in Studies 1 and 2 had been shown either a good or poor view of the perpetrator or in Study 3 viewed either a Caucasian or an Asian criminal, in a video-taped crime. Based on information obtained from the witness, student-investigators then chose a suspect from a database containing information about potential suspects and rated the probability that their suspect was the culprit. Investigators then administered a photo lineup to witnesses, and re-rated the probability that their suspect was guilty. Student-investigators were highly influenced by eyewitness identification decisions, typically overestimating the information gained from the identification decision (except under conditions that led witnesses to be very accurate), and generally did not differentiate between accurate and inaccurate witnesses.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/880
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjecteyewitness identificationen_US
dc.subjectpolice investigationen_US
dc.subject.lcshUVic Subject Index::Humanities and Social Sciences::Psychology::Human behavioren_US
dc.titleInvestigating investigators: Examining the impact of eyewitness identification evidence on student-investigatorsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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