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Viewing composite sketches: lineups and showups compared
Author(s) -
Dekle Dawn J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.1185
Subject(s) - psychology , identification (biology) , similarity (geometry) , eyewitness identification , social psychology , cognitive psychology , artificial intelligence , data mining , computer science , botany , relation (database) , image (mathematics) , biology
This study assesses the effect of high‐and low‐similarity composites on identification accuracy, using both lineups and showups. Participants witnessed a mock crime scene, viewed a composite of the perpetrator, then attempted an identification. The results indicate that witnesses are not overly influenced by low‐similarity composites on subsequent identification accuracy. There was also no evidence that showups were less accurate identification procedures than lineups, across composition conditions. In fact, in perpetrator absent situations, showups were better identification procedures than lineups in terms of accuracy. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.