The Suggestive Influence of Viewing an Intervening Lineup on the Accuracy of Eyewitness Memory

PezdekSES 991909本研究建立在认知心理学关于“事后信息”暗示效应的大量研究文献基础上。“据推测，目击者在警察阵容中的记忆会受到这些信息的影响，导致某些假阳性识别。 这里的项目是调查的条件下，观看一个干预阵容可能会降低目击者的记忆在随后的阵容的准确性。 有四个实验使用四个法医学相关的因素，已知与记忆痕迹强度：本族与跨种族的面孔，最初暴露于目标面孔的时间，保留间隔，和嫌疑人的年龄。 本研究的长期目标是为记忆理论的发展做出贡献，并探索警察工作和法庭日常环境中的记忆可接受性维度。

PezdekSES 991909This research builds upon a substantial research literature in cognitive psychology on the suggestive effects of "post-event information." It is hypothesized that eyewitness memory in a police line-up, will be affected by such information, leading to certain false positive identifications. The project here is to investigate the conditions under which viewing an intervening lineup is likely to reduce the accuracy of eyewitness memory on a subsequent lineup. There are four experiments using four forensically relevant factors known to relate to memory trace strength: own-race versus cross-race faces, initial exposure time to the target face, retention interval, and age of suspects. The long-term goal of this research is to contribute to the development of theories of memory and explore the dimensions of suggestibility in the every-day setting of police work and courts of law.