APS
2024 APS Annual Convention · 2024
Mistaken Identifications Can Create Memory Distortion: How Pre-Identification Testing, and Post-Identification Feedback Affect Memory Change.
- Karina Olmos
California State University, Los Angeles - Mitchell Eisen
California State University, Los Angeles - Jayla Edwards
California State University, Los Angeles - Aundia Dianat
California State University, Los Angeles - Faith Haile
California State University, Los Angeles
Abstract
Participants were led to misidentify an innocent-suspect with a face-tattoo (the culprit had no tattoos). Before the lineup, participants were randomly assigned to describe the culprit before the identification test and choosers were randomly assigned to receive confirming-feedback. As expected, pre-identification descriptions lowered false tattoo-reports, but confirming-feedback negated this effect.
Memory
