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Although reports of postidentification confidence are not always reliable indicators of eyewitness accuracy, jurors rely heavily on eyewitness confidence to evaluate eyewitnesses. Face memory ability tests, however, provide objective information about a person’s ability to encode and recognize a face and affects the strength of the connection between confidence statements and accuracy. To examine how jurors and lay persons might interpret this information, we ran three online studies (N 1= 3,143, N 2= 1,156, N 3= 3,180). Jury-eligible participants were generally able to (a) interpret eyewitness reports of objectively good or poor face memory and (b) integrate face memory information with reports of high or low postidentification confidence. The exception was when the eyewitness reported low confidence and a good face memory score—mock-jurors discounted the eyewitness’s uncertainty even when given expert …