United Nations hostage simulation reveals how biased instructions skew eyewitness identifications

Recent research found that high-stress scenarios and biased lineup instructions reduced eyewitness accuracy, increasing false identifications and confidence in errors, highlighting the need for unbiased procedures to improve reliability in real-world investigations.

PsyPost

Over the last few days I've posted my #academic #introduction & 4 posts outlining my main research interests with links to articles, videos, websites & podcasts

They are:
1. #EyewitnessIdentification
2. #BystanderIntervention
3. #TechForGood
4. #WiedemannSteinerSyndrome #WSS

If you're interested in any of them, give me a follow. I'm usually pretty good at following back & tooting your work too!

The rest of the time, I like #dogs #nature #food #creativity #friends #humour

I used to be a portrait artist & am interested in faces & eyewitness identification

I have explored whether pupillometry can measure memory strength for a culprit's face (it can) & whether websleuthing affects eyewitness performance in a police lineup (it can)

#pupillometry articles: https://theconversation.com/pupil-changes-linked-to-eyewitness-memory-strength-in-police-lineups-124203

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1068316X.2019.1634196?journalCode=gpcl20

#websleuthing article: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.640513/full

#EyewitnessIdentification #PoliceLineups #websleuthing #FaceRecognition #WrongfulConviction #CognitivePsychology

Pupil changes linked to eyewitness memory strength in police lineups

Initial research found witness pupils got bigger when correctly identifying a criminal.

The Conversation
@ayannakim Welcome! She’s too modest to say so, but Prof. Thomas is a well known expert in #EyewitnessIdentification So glad you’re here.

I joined Mastodon a few days ago and posted an #introduction but haven’t had time to post anything since

My research interests are quite wide, so I thought I’d outline each in a separate post, to make it easier to find anyone with similar interests

They are:
1. #EyewitnessIdentification
2. #BystanderIntervention
3. #TechForGood
4. #WiedemannSteinerSyndrome #WSS
5. And I’ll do one for my #teaching roles

But as it’s the weekend (after another long week), it can wait!

@kaitclark Thanks so much for doing this. I'd like to be added please. I'm interested in

#eyewitnessIdentification #cognitivepsychology
#bystanderintervention
#digitalpolicing
#misinformation