Eyewitness confidence and decision time reflect identification accuracy in actual police lineups.

A Quigley-McBride, GL Wells - Law and Human Behavior, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Test a witness's memory of a suspect only once

JT Wixted, GL Wells, EF Loftus… - … Science in the Public …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Eyewitness misidentifications are almost always made with high confidence in the
courtroom. The courtroom is where eyewitnesses make their last identification of defendants …

Witnessing-condition information differentially affects evaluations of high-and moderate-confidence eyewitness identifications

TC Lebensfeld, L Smalarz - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent research on the eyewitness confidence-accuracy relationship reveals that
confidence can be highly diagnostic of accuracy when the identification evidence is …

Comparing human evaluations of eyewitness statements to a machine learning classifier under pristine and suboptimal lineup administration procedures

JH Grabman, IG Dobbins, CS Dodson - Cognition, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent work highlights the ability of verbal machine learning classifiers to distinguish
between accurate and inaccurate recognition memory decisions (Dobbins, 2022; Dobbins & …

Individual differences in autobiographical memory predict memory confidence but not memory accuracy.

NP Nielsen, TB Gehrt, D Berntsen - Journal of Applied Research in …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
To assess the accuracy of an eyewitness testimony, ratings of memory confidence are often
used. However, memory accuracy and confidence are rarely studied in relation to individual …

Assessing the effect of eyewitness identification confidence assessment method on the confidence-accuracy relationship.

A Arndorfer, SD Charman - Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Historically, best practice recommendations suggested obtaining eyewitnesses' lineup
identification confidence reports in their own words. More recently, best practice …

Interpreting eyewitness confidence: Numeric, verbal, and graded verbal scales

RL Greenspan, EF Loftus - Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In empirical research, eyewitnesses typically report their confidence numerically (eg,“I'm
90% sure”). In contrast, in the field, lineup administrators typically ask witnesses to explain …

Variability in verbal eyewitness confidence

P Pennekamp, JK Mansour… - Applied Cognitive …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Typically, an eyewitness' verbal confidence is used to judge the reliability of their lineup
identification. Across three experiments (N= 3976), we examined eyewitnesses' own words …

Laypeople's interpretations of 'high confidence'

P Pennekamp, JK Mansour - Psychology, Crime & Law, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
High confidence has been associated with high accuracy under certain conditions. Yet, how
researchers operationalize 'high confidence'varies across publications and depends on who …

“In your own words, how certain are you?” Post‐identification feedback distorts verbal and numeric expressions of eyewitness confidence

JM Kenchel, RL Greenspan, D Reisberg… - Applied Cognitive …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
After making a lineup identification, eyewitnesses remember being more confident in their
identification and having a better view of the initial crime if they are told they correctly …