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Crimes can occur in a matter of seconds, with little time available for an eyewitness to encode a perpetrator’s face. The presence of a weapon can further exacerbate this situation. Few studies have featured mock crimes of short...

eyewitness identification weapon focus effect encoding time Confidence and Accuracy Psychology

From the perspective of signal-detection theory, different lineup instructions may induce different levels of response bias (Clark, 2005). If so, then collecting correct and false identification rates across different...

Eyewitness Memory Confidence and Accuracy Biased Instructions Unbiased Instructions Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis Psychology

From the perspective of signal-detection theory, different lineup instructions may induce different levels of response bias (Clark, 2005). If so, then collecting correct and false identification rates across different...

Eyewitness Memory Confidence and Accuracy Biased Instructions Unbiased Instructions Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis Psychology

From the perspective of signal-detection theory, different lineup instructions may induce different levels of response bias (Clark, 2005). If so, then collecting correct and false identification rates across different...

Eyewitness Memory Confidence and Accuracy Biased Instructions Unbiased Instructions Receiver Operating Characteristic Analysis Psychology

Crimes can occur in a matter of seconds, with little time available for an eyewitness to encode a perpetrator’s face. The presence of a weapon can further exacerbate this situation. Few studies have featured mock crimes of short...

eyewitness identification weapon focus effect encoding time Confidence and Accuracy Psychology

The weapon focus effect (WFE) occurs when a weapon distracts eyewitnesses, harming memory for the perpetrator and other details. One explanation is that weapons are unusual in most contexts, and unusual objects distract...

eyewitness identification weapon focus effect unusualness hypothesis Confidence and Accuracy Psychology

Crimes can occur in a matter of seconds, with little time available for an eyewitness to encode a perpetrator’s face. The presence of a weapon can further exacerbate this situation. Few studies have featured mock crimes of short...

eyewitness identification weapon focus effect encoding time Confidence and Accuracy Psychology

The weapon focus effect (WFE) occurs when a weapon distracts eyewitnesses, harming memory for the perpetrator and other details. One explanation is that weapons are unusual in most contexts, and unusual objects distract...

eyewitness identification weapon focus effect unusualness hypothesis Confidence and Accuracy Psychology

The weapon focus effect (WFE) occurs when a weapon distracts eyewitnesses, harming memory for the perpetrator and other details. One explanation is that weapons are unusual in most contexts, and unusual objects distract...

eyewitness identification weapon focus effect unusualness hypothesis Confidence and Accuracy Psychology