Post-Description Delay Effects on the Confidence-Accuracy Relationship in Verbal Overshadowing

Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990) found that verbally describing a person’s face impairs later target identification. Alogna et al. (2014) suggested that the delay between the description and the test moderates this verbal overshadowing effect. We report that post-description delay moderates the relationship between accuracy and confidence in eyewitness identification.