APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Witnesses Perform Differently When They Think It’s Real: Using a Field-Simulation Paradigm to Study Showups in Real-World Conditions
- Jade Owen
California State University, Los Angeles - Gabriela Cedre
California State University, Los Angeles - Mitchell Eisen
California State University, Los Angeles - Andrew Smith
Iowa State University
Abstract
Participants (N=563) witnessed a theft and participated in a showup conducted by either the police (field-simulation) or a researcher (lab). Participants in the field-simulation condition were more likely to identify the suspect presented, took substantially longer to make their identifications, and were more confident in those decisions regardless of accuracy.
Forensic
