Predicting Lineup Identifications
| dc.contributor.author | Baldassari, Mario J. | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Lindsay, D. Stephen | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Brimacombe, C. A. Elizabeth | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-01-20T22:17:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-01-20T22:17:28Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2013 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-01-20 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Psychology | |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science M.Sc. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Witnesses sometimes mistakenly identify innocent suspects in lineups from which the real culprit is absent, and those errors can have tragic consequences. Can we estimate in advance a witness’s susceptibility to making false identifications in culprit-absent lineups? Kantner and Lindsay (2012) found that response criterion on a standard test of old/new recognition (of faces or words) correlated with the likelihood of making lineup identifications. Four experiments tested the predictive utility of a two-alternative forced choice facial recognition test that included trials in which neither face had been studied. Through Experiment 3 we observed several weak predictive relationships, including confidence on the facial recognition test with confidence on the lineup test, but not the hypothesized relationship: that the rate of false alarms on the TA face recognition trials would predict false alarm rates on the target-absent lineup trials. Experiment 4 implemented a substantial increase in the number of face recognition trials displaying two non-studied faces (from 4 trials to 30) and the originally hypothesized relationship was found (r=.45). Implications for future research aimed at developing measures with real-world utility are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0633 | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0623 | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestcode | 0384 | en_US |
| dc.description.proquestemail | mjbldssr@uvic.ca | en_US |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5166 | |
| dc.language | English | eng |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.rights.temp | Available to the World Wide Web | en_US |
| dc.subject | Memory | en_US |
| dc.subject | Eyewitness identification | en_US |
| dc.title | Predicting Lineup Identifications | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |