Some witnesses are better than others
Some witnesses are better than others
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DOI：
10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.010
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发表时间：
2009-09-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Memon, Amina
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作者：
Darling, Stephen;Martin, Douglas;Memon, Amina
这篇论文报道了一项单一的研究，在这项研究中，评估了视觉处理的个体差异，并比较了参与者从一系列产品中识别罪犯的能力。这项研究分为两个部分，相隔几周。在第一部分中，参与者被要求报告刺激的全局和局部方面(Navon(1977)首次使用)，其中包括由小个体字母组成的大字母。对字母冲突时造成的干扰程度采取了措施(例如，由小写字母SS组成的大字母P)。在研究的第二部分，参与者观看了一段犯罪视频，随后试图从一系列犯罪中辨认出罪魁祸首。我们发现，当参与者报告本地字母时，冲突的全局信息造成的干扰与识别性能之间存在关联。那些最容易受到全球干扰的参与者比那些最不容易受到相互冲突的全球信息影响的参与者更容易找到罪魁祸首。这些结果建立了全局/局部加工的个体差异测量与目击者识别绩效之间的关系，这表明具有相对全局加工偏见的参与者可能会成为更好的目击者。(C)2009爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
This paper reports a single study in which individual differences in visual processing were assessed in comparison with participants' ability to identify a culprit from a lineup. There were two parts to the study, separated by several weeks. In the first part, participants were asked to report on the global and local aspects of stimuli (first used by Navon (1977)) comprising large letters made up of small individual letters. Measures were taken of the degree of interference caused when the letters conflicted (e.g. a large letter P composed of small letter Ss). In the second part of the study, participants viewed a video of a crime, and subsequently attempted to identify the culprit from a lineup. We found that there was an association between the interference caused by conflicting global information when participants were reporting local letters, and identification performance. Those participants that were most susceptible to global interference identified the culprit more often than those who were the least susceptible to conflicting global information. These results establish a relationship between an individual differences measure of global/local processing and eyewitness recognition performance, suggesting that participants with a relative global processing bias might make better eyewitnesses. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.