Objective: The Executive Committee of the American Psychology-Law Society (Division 41
of the American Psychological Association) appointed a subcommittee to update the …

Objective: Although there are many lab-based studies demonstrating the utility of confidence
and decision time as indicators of eyewitness accuracy, there is almost no research on how …

The development of forensic DNA testing has led to the discovery of hundreds of cases of
mistaken eyewitness identification in which innocent people were convicted. Although these …

The conceptual frameworks provided by both the lineups-as-experiments analogy and
signal detection theory have proven important to understanding how eyewitness lineups …

Two provocative claims about eyewitness confidence have recently been advanced in the
eyewitness-identification literature:(a) suspect identifications made with high confidence are …

Historically, best practice recommendations suggested obtaining eyewitnesses' lineup
identification confidence reports in their own words. More recently, best practice …

There is now a wealth of research addressing the accuracy of eyewitnesses' decisions about
lineups and the circumstances in which they can be expected to correctly identify the culprit …

Abstract The two-high threshold (2-HT) eyewitness identification model serves as a new
measurement tool to measure the latent cognitive processes underlying eyewitness …

The mock-witness task is typically used to evaluate the fairness of lineups. However, the
validity of this task has been questioned because there are substantial differences between …

This article uses machine-learning techniques to examine people's use of verbal
expressions of confidence. Across the field of academic psychology, it is often assumed that …