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- Eyewitness accounts often highlight unique facial features of suspects, but relying solely on these can bias police lineups against innocent individuals.
- To create fair lineups, it's better to either replicate distinctive features among the non-targets or hide them on the actual suspect.
- Recent experiments showed that replicating features led to more accurate identifications without causing more mistakes on foils, aligning with predictions from the hybrid-similarity model of recognition.
Article Abstract
In their descriptions, eyewitnesses often refer to a culprit's distinctive facial features. However, in a police lineup, selecting the only member with the described distinctive feature is unfair to the suspect and provides the police with little further information. For fair and informative lineups, the distinctive feature should be either replicated across foils or concealed on the target. In the present experiments, replication produced more correct identifications in target-present lineups--without increasing the incorrect identification of foils in target-absent lineups--than did concealment. This pattern, and only this pattern, is predicted by the hybrid-similarity model of recognition.
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