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From the archive: ‘A memory and decision model for eyewitness identification’ by S. E. Clark (2003). Applied Cognitive Psychology , 17 , 629–654 with commentary
Publication year - 2011
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.1781
Subject(s) - psychology , witness , eyewitness identification , cognition , identification (biology) , eyewitness memory , eyewitness testimony , forensic psychology , cognitive psychology , psychoanalysis , cognitive science , criminology , recall , botany , database , neuroscience , relation (database) , computer science , biology , programming language
I chose this paper because it demonstrates an insightful application of theory to the complex problem of witness decision making. It provides an explicit mathematical model of how people make identifications, and applies it to existing published data sets with apparently discrepant findings. The outcomes challenge how we think about the identifi cation process, how we should interpret variations between studies, and what our applied recommendations about line‐ups should be.