The US legal system increasingly accepts the idea that the confidence expressed by an
eyewitness who identified a suspect from a lineup provides little information as to the …

There has been unprecedented interest in recent years in questions pertaining to accuracy
and distortion in memory. This interest, catalyzed in part by real-life problems, marks a …

Confidence and accuracy, while often considered to tap the same memory representation,
are often found to be only weakly correlated (eg, Bothwell, Deffenbacher, & Brigham, 1987; …

Crime is an expensive aspect of society, and each year huge amounts of public money are
spent on the courts, police, probation services, and prisons, while the human costs in terms …

Psychology and Law shows how psychological research and theory can be used in a legal
context. Written with advanced undergraduate students in mind, it focuses upon the pre-trial …

In answering general-information questions, a within-person confidence-accuracy (CA)
correlation is typically observed, suggesting that people can monitor the correctness of their …

The current study examined the relationship between the length of exposure to a face in an
eyewitness setting and identification accuracy and confidence. A sample of 164 young (ages …

We hypothesized that both accuracy and confidence in suspect identifications depend, in
part, on participants' ability to identify the target, and that both accuracy and confidence …

Estimator variables are factors that can affect the accuracy of eyewitness identifications but
that are outside of the control of the criminal justice system. Examples include (1) the …

Confidence-accuracy (CA) calibration was examined for absolute and relative face
recognition judgments as well as for recognition judgments from groups of stimuli presented …